Ocean Park
Pacific County, WA
46.491915, -124.049592
75 Feet
Call: NM7R
145.170 -600kHz 118.8Hz
Ocean Park VHF Repeater
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Location: In Ocean Park, a town and social center in the
northern part of the Long Beach Peninsula. The repeater itself
is in the attic of the Ocean Park Fire Hall, across
Bay Avenue, north of Jack's
Country Store. The antenna is only twenty feet above the
roof, but the signal covers this population center well
enough to make a big difference.
Coverage: Although there are several
area repeaters that work well mobile, hand-held coverage
has always been elusive in this town center. With the
Fire Hall being a major shelter and nerve center during
an emergency, the repeater is quite useful. Expect to use
this repeater within 3-4 miles hand held, and 10 miles mobile.
Normally linked to the rest of
BeachNet,
this repeater can be linked to the 444.925 IRLP repeater
on Megler Mountain, by a Control Operator. This provides a 2-meter
port to the world-wide connectivity and just plain fun of IRLP
for those in the North Peninsula area who may not have a UHF rig.
It also provides a
potential connection to the
Ilwaco 146.860 repeater,
located at the south end of the Long Beach Peninsula, and
owned and operated by the Pacific County ARC, which can also
be linked to the same UHF repeater. During a disaster
situation, the Ocean Park 145.170, Ilwaco 146.860 and Megler 444.925
repeaters could be linked
in this way to provide a Peninsula-wide mini-net for
Fire and Emergency Medical support.
Hardware: The repeater consists of a
GE Mastr-II 110-watt continuous duty
base station (running 40-watts)
with a Link RLC1 controller in a 30-inch GE cabinet with a
Mastr-II power supply. The duplexer is an 8-inch Wacom BpBr feeding a
Hustler G6-270 dual band antenna through 50 feet of LDF4-50
half-inch hardline. The remote base uses a GE Rangr 16-channel
UHF transceiver running 50-watts, which shares the antenna through
a diplexer.
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