2-METER REPEATER 147.150+ PL 114.8
UHF REPEATER 443.600+ PL 103.5(when needed)
The two-meter machine is located in Brandywine, Md. (16 miles S.E. of the U.S. Capitol). It is a Motorola MSR-2000 purchased new by the club in 1990. A four bay folded dipole antenna at 240 feet is fed 100 watts through 7/8" hardline. An autopatch is available to members. The UHF machine is also located at this site. The UHF antenna is a Celwave 8-db OMNI antenna located at the top of the 320 ft tower. The 2 meter machine ID's W3SMR, which is the Club Call, and the UHF machine ID's WA3YUV.
The club was one of the first in the area to put up a wide coverage repeater. Built in 1975, the first SMARC repeater, consisted of a couple of old GE Progress Line mobile rigs and a GE Power Mate 300 watt amplifier. An audio board, controller, antenna, and duplexer were designed and constructed. The radios were modified and made RF tight for repeater service. The club kept a machine at the 227 foot tower at Cheltenham Naval base until 1995 when the tower was torn down. We then moved to a 150 foot tower at the same facility until Sept. 24, 1996 when we took the machine off the air ending an era that lasted 21 years at Cheltenham. (The Navy is tearing down the 150 foot tower as well, in preparation for closing the base.) The two meter repeater was then moved to its present location in Brandywine, Md.