North Cove
Pacific County, WA
46.734566, -124.047403
550 Feet
Call: NM7R
145.310 -600kHz 118.8Hz
444.400 +5MHz 118.8Hz
North Cove VHF Repeater
North Cove UHF Repeater
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Network link is temporarily down. The KO Peak station went
off the air during a thunderstorm recently, taking the primary
network links with it. Until a site visit can be arranged to
assess and repair the damage, the network link from the
North Cove 145.310 repeater is inoperative.
Location: The North Cove site is on the ocean bluff,
overlooking North Cove, near
Tokeland/Grayland, WA, above "Washaway Beach" on the north side of
the mouth of Willapa Bay.
Coverage: The two North Cove repeaters can be easily
accessed north to
Westport, WA, and south along the ocean side of the Long
Beach Peninsula, especially the beach area. The coverage
to the east overlaps with that from the South Bend, Naselle and Megler
repeaters. The North Cove repeaters can be useful along
Highway 101, especially the VHF repeater, which has a
Remote Receiver at the Naselle site
providing very good coverage from Bay Center, south along Highway
101 to the Highway 4 junction at "Johnson's Landing".
To use this high-level receiver, shift your CTCSS (PL) tone
from the usual 118.8 Hz to 114.8 Hz and your transmissions
will be picked up loud and clear in this area.
The 2-meter repeater
is normally linked to
BeachNet,
while the UHF machine normally operates as stand-alone,
providing a local-use alternative with better range than simplex to
"talk around the corner", without using the entire network.
The 444.400 repeater can be linked to the rest of the network
when desired.
Hardware: The VHF repeater consists of a GE Mastr-II base station,
originally the 146.860 Ilwaco repeater. The radio was retired
by the club and made available as surplus. With a little
refurbishment it has proven to be a reliable machine. The VHF
duplexer is a Sinclair Hybrid-Ring unit, originally used at
the 146.760 repeater in Oregon. Mice had chewed the cable harness,
destroying the device, and the Sunset Empire club had sold this
as surplus as well. With a careful replacement of the harness,
this unit once again performs well. The VHF repeater incorporates
a CAT-200B controller and runs 40-watts
to a Hustler G6-270 dual band antenna at 130-feet up the tower,
fed with LMR-600 coax cable.
The UHF station uses a GE Mastr-II mobile, duplex converted, running
30-watts. The duplexer is a Motorola four-can bandpass type, and the
repeater shares the Hustler dual-band antenna and feedline
through a diplexer. the UHF repeater uses an NHRC4-M2 controller.
The two stations have independent power supplies and link systems.
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