Bernalillo County Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)

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ARES Repeaters

Bernalillo County ARES Repeaters

The Bernalillo County Office of Emergency Management has installed three amateur radio repeaters for ARES use to provide emergency communication. These are open repeaters that can be used by any licensed amateur radio operator.

Name Location Output Frequency Output CTCSS Input Frequency Input CTCSS
BC-ARES North County Fire Station #5 145.130 MHz 162.2 Hz 144.530 MHz 100 Hz or 162.2 Hz
BC-ARES West County Fire Maintenance Yard 442.050 MHz 162.2 Hz 447.050 MHz 100 Hz or 162.2 Hz
BC-ARES East Cedro Peak 145.160 MHz 162.2 Hz 144.560 MHz 100 Hz or 162.2 Hz

Upper Rio FM Society Repeaters

Bernalillo County ARES also regularly uses the repeaters of the Upper Rio FM Society. The repeaters that we normally use are:

Name Location Output Frequency Output CTCSS Input Frequency Input CTCSS
Abq Metro Upper Rio Hub 146.900 MHz none 146.300 MHz 67 Hz
Tapia Mesa County Fire Maintenance Yard 147.060 MHz none 147.660 MHz 67 Hz
Mount Taylor Mount Taylor (75 miles west of Abq.) 146.940 MHz none 146.340 MHz 100 Hz
Capilla Peak Capilla Peak (in the Manzano mountains) 146.960 MHz none 146.360 MHz 100 Hz

Propagation Maps

The picture above shows the location of the three Bernalillo County ARES repeaters in addition to an overlaid propagation prediction for the VHF BC-ARES North repeater.

If you would like to explore the propagation map shown above as well as for the other repeaters regularly used by Bernalillo County ARES, download and Unzip this file:

BC-ARES_RACES_KML.zip

This file contains a KML file and images of the propagation maps. You will need Google Earth to explore these maps. These propagation maps use the color scale shown below.


Last Modified: 8:57:20 AM Friday, May 09, 2008

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