Ham Travel Companion — Highway Repeater Finder

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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!

Pick your road from the list below

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Tap your nearest city — or use GPS — or just press Find

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Repeaters appear · if too few, slide the Search Area slider to the right for a wider search

🎪 Heading to a hamfest? Skip steps 1 and 2 — 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

Search Area

30 mi

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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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Approx. Length

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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

Select a road and city to load 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 scanning tip: VFO mode → MENU → scroll to R-CTCS (#11) → MENU → scroll through tones → MENU → *SCAN. Wait for the repeater to key up and the correct tone will 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 drawn primarily from RepeaterBook.com — the largest community-maintained repeater database in the world — along with RadioReference, individual club websites, and trustee-verified sources. We credit RepeaterBook because credit is due: their volunteer contributors have built something remarkable for the ham community.

What we do differently:
RepeaterBook organizes repeaters by location and state. Routersandrepeaters.net reorganizes that same data 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. It's a different lens on the same data, optimized for travelers rather than locals.

This data is a living document:
Repeaters go offline, change tones, move frequencies. Our coverage is growing. Over time, we aim to become a community-maintained resource in our own right — where hams who travel these corridors regularly contribute corrections and additions, much as they do with RepeaterBook. Your 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.

About this site:
Built and maintained by a licensed amateur radio operator. Personal ham page: aa4te.com
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📡 Draft 1 · Field Test Team

You found it. 🎉
This is a pre-release field test build of routersandrepeaters.net.
Special thanks to our Pacific Northwest testers:
Jason · Marilyn · Rick · Tim
Washington QSO Party · Ocean City State Park · April 2026

Your feedback on repeater accuracy, usability, and coverage gaps
is exactly what makes this better for every ham on the road. 73!