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Skywarn Direct Frequencies
The Wichita NWS has an Icom IC-910H radio for hams to use while in the office. There is also a switch to go from a ground plain to a stacked two-meter beam array for long-haul communications. Below are the current frequencies programmed in the memory in the radio at the NWS office.
Please use the contact page if you have made contacts directly to the weather service on a frequency not listed here. This list contains known repeaters that the NWS office can reach under most conditions.
Programmed IC-910H NWS Office
Memory
Channel
Frequency
Location
Coverage
1.
147.300+
Sumner County
2.
145.130-
PL 156.7
Beaumont
Butler, Elk Greenwood Counties
3.
146.895-
Wichita
SE Sedgwick County
4.
146.610-
Newton
Harvey Co R.A.C.E.S. / Skywarn
5
146.820-
Hutchinson
Wide area coverage
6
146.760-
Great Bend
Barton County
7
146.670-
Hutchinson
Reno County
8
145.190-
Winfield
Cowley County
9
147.150+
El Dorado
Butler County
10
146.940-
Wichita
Sedgwick Co R.A.C.E.S
11
147.330+
McPherson
McPherson Saline, and W Marion County
12
146.790-
Derby
Sedgwick, Sumner Counties
Sunday, March 30, 2008 18:06
Not yet programmed but can reach the NWS directly
146.70-
Pratt
Pratt County
Skywarn goal: Re-establish link through the 146.820- repeater east of Hutchinson to the NW counties, who have a
linked network of repeaters established