W9YH
Synton Amateur Radio Club
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
       Open Lab Space - ECE Building
      306 N. Wright St.
      Urbana, IL 61801

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Synton Amateur Radio Club
c/o Debbie Fligor
1304 W Springfield Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
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Synton Net
Mondays at 9 PM Central Time
on the W9YH repeater:
444.525 MHz (+) PL 162.2 Hz
(active during the semester only)
Repeater Information
There are a number of open repeaters in the Champaign-Urbana area.
  • 146.760 (-) K9CU repeater in Champaign (PL 162.2, Echolink 8231)
  • 147.060 (+) KD9FDD repeater in northeast Urbana (PL 162.2)
  • 444.100 (+) K9CU repeater in northwest Champaign (PL 162.2)
  • 444.525 (+) W9YH repeater near WILL in Urbana (PL 162.2) - this repeater was donated to Synton!! Thank you K9BF.
  • 443.48125 (+) W9YR D-STAR repeater in NW Champaign -- note this is a DV (not FM) repeater
  • 443.76875 (+) W9IPA DMR repeater in Champaign by Parkland (CC 1) -- note this is also a DV repeater

TCARC maintains a list of area repeaters at their website.

Transmit offsets are normal (600 kHz for 2m, 5 MHz for 440) unless noted.

Baofeng Configuration Guide

These are the settings needed to configure a Baofeng for these stations:
  • R-CTCSS: 162.2 Hz
  • T-CTCSS: 162.2 Hz
  • Offset: 5 MHz
  • SFT-D: +