You Indiana Boys Juicing your Repeaters?

[Photoman5k]

Im sitting here in SE Wisconsin about 7miles southeast of the Armored RX repeater and Ive been picking up a couple of ya'lls repeaters, one on 700, I think It's the VALPO 01 based on the RX tone and one or maybe 2 on 675 earlier today. I could hear traffic using two different RX tones, so I'd have to guess it was from both the Valpo675 and LaPorte675 as the tones matched both of those. Still picking up the one on 700 as I write this and I'm sitting in my basement writing this. We aren't linked into the system tonight, so I know for sure i'm not hearing you through the system. What are ya'll feeding those things? They are beasts tonight.  

 

[WRKC935]

Band opening.

Happened last night too.

 

[Photoman5k]

Yeah figured that. Fun when that happens. 

[WRCQ487]

It also helps that both those repeater come straight across the lake. 

[KAF6045]

4 minutes ago, WRCQ487 said:

It also helps that both those repeater come straight across the lake. 

A few weeks ago, we had a situation (Amateur 2m) on the W8IRA linked system (basically covers US131 and I94 [some I96], in Michigan) in which two users in Wisconsin -- who were not within range of a common Wisconsin repeater -- were talking to each other via the W8IRA system.

[Photoman5k]

1 hour ago, WRCQ487 said:

It also helps that both those repeater come straight across the lake. 

Normally can't pick them up though. Kinda nice to hear some different traffic. Only repeaters around me that have any traffic are Armored 1 and Armored RX. I'll pick up the Chain of Lakes repeater too but all the rest of the local ones are dead. Only other things i pick up are businesses and schools on the simplex channels or occasionally some kids playing around on the radio and being annoying.