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Highway Repeater Finder

Select your road · tap your nearest city · see repeaters instantly.
Works before you leave home. GPS makes it even easier on the road. Always verify frequencies before travel. · 73!

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🆕 New Here? Here's All You Need to Know

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🎪 Heading to a Hamfest? Use the orange hamfest buttons in the search bar below to go straight to the right road for your event.

① Select Your Road ▼▼

GPS Locate

Uses your phone GPS → finds nearest city

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🎪 Going to a hamfest?

② Tap Your Nearest City on This Road ▶▶ no GPS needed — just tap the closest city

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Select a road above to begin

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Ready to Find Repeaters

Select your road from the dropdown above, then tap the city closest to you.
Repeaters within your chosen search area appear instantly — no GPS required.

Heading to a hamfest? Use the quick-links above the search bar.

Callsign	Name / Location	Frequency	Tone Type & Code	Band	Notes	Dist	Source

📻 NOAA Weather Radio — Nearest Stations

Loads automatically after you select a road and tap a city above

← Select a road and tap a city to see nearby NOAA weather frequencies

Step 1 — Select your road from the dropdown. The corridor name shows the highway number and anchor cities so you can confirm it's your road.

Step 2 — Three ways to set your location:
· Tap a city button — tap the city closest to where you are on the road. Works before you leave home. No GPS needed.
· 📍 My Location — tap to use your phone or tablet GPS. Finds your position automatically while driving.
· ▶ Find Repeaters — press without selecting a city to search near the first city on the corridor.

Step 3 — Not enough results? Slide the Search Area slider to the right to expand your search radius. Large metro areas may need 40–50 miles to capture repeaters on surrounding hilltops.

The ● NOAA WX band filter shows the nearest NOAA All-Hazards Weather Radio frequencies for your search area.

This is more important than it looks. When you are in a dead zone with no cell signal — exactly when severe weather is most dangerous — your ham radio can still receive NOAA weather broadcasts and tornado warnings. A standard 2m/70cm radio with WX channels receives NOAA on 162.400–162.550 MHz with no special equipment.

What to do: Before entering a known dead zone or mountain stretch, tap NOAA WX, note the frequency for your area, and program it into a WX memory channel on your radio. No tone required — just the frequency.

⚠ NOAA weather alerts continue transmitting even when all other communications are down. Program the nearest WX frequency before you lose cell signal — not after.

Most repeaters require a tone to open the squelch. Two types are used:

CTCSS PL (Continuous Tone) — an analog sub-audible tone transmitted with your voice. Listed in Hz (e.g. 100.0 Hz, 156.7 Hz). Set this in your radio's Tone or T-SQL menu.

DCS (Digital Coded Squelch) — a digital code transmitted with your signal. Listed as a 3-digit number (e.g. 315). Set this in your radio's DCS or DTCS menu.

None / CSQ — no tone needed. The repeater opens on any carrier. Less common.

📻 Baofeng UV-5R — Auto PL Tone Scan Don't know the PL tone? Your radio can find it automatically.
Button names are in CAPS. Follow these steps in order:

1. Make sure you are in VFO mode — press VFO/MR to switch if needed
2. Tune to the repeater's output frequency
3. Press MENU
4. Scroll up or down to #11 R-CTCS
5. Press MENU
6. Scroll UP to any PL tone — e.g. 67.0 Hz
7. Press *SCAN
8. Wait for the repeater to key up — the radio stops on the correct PL tone automatically

⚠ The repeater must be active (someone transmitting or kerchunking it) for the scan to lock in.

The red banner warns you of known VHF dead zones — typically mountain passes, long desert stretches, or rural gaps with no repeater infrastructure.

When you see a coverage alert:
· Print or screenshot your current repeater list before entering the gap
· Note the last repeater frequency and tone before losing signal
· Monitor 146.520 MHz simplex — the national calling frequency
· Program the NOAA weather frequency for your area (see NOAA section above)

The ⬇ CHIRP CSV button downloads your current results as a file that imports directly into CHIRP radio programming software.

In CHIRP: File → Import → From file → select the downloaded .csv file. All frequencies, offsets, tones, and DCS codes are pre-formatted correctly. Works with most Yaesu, Icom, Kenwood, and Baofeng radios supported by CHIRP.

The orange Going to a hamfest? buttons pre-select the best corridor for each major convention. Tap the event you are attending, then tap your nearest city on that road. The corridor is already chosen — you skip step 1 entirely.

Where the data comes from:
Repeater data is sourced from club and linked system websites, and repeater community reports. Sources include the Utah VHF Society Intermountain Intertie documentation, the Montana Repeater Link Association, SD-Link, FM38, RMRA, SCHEART, FleetTalk W4FTK, ETECS, SMLRS, and many individual club sites across the country. Each repeater entry carries a source rating shown in the result cards.

Data quality ratings:
✓ Verified — Confirmed from a primary source: a club or linked system operator page, or trustee-published frequency list. Trust these.
🔵 Club Source — Sourced from a club or organization website. Reliable but not field-confirmed on this corridor.
◌ Unverified — Placeholder data awaiting confirmation. Treat as a starting point — verify before relying on it.

What we do differently:
Most repeater resources organize by location and state. Routersandrepeaters.net organizes by travel corridor — so a ham driving I-75 from Miami to Dayton sees only the repeaters relevant to that specific road, in order, with dead zone warnings, NOAA weather frequencies, and CHIRP export built in. Optimized for travelers rather than locals.

This data is a living document:
Repeaters go offline, change tones, move frequencies. We are actively expanding coverage through club and community sources. Your field reports make it better for every ham on this road. ⚠ Frequencies and tones change — always verify before travel. Found a dead repeater or a missing one?
Use the ➕ Submit a Repeater link in the footer or the Contact link to reach us. Please include the frequency, offset, tone, and approximate location. Every correction helps.

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