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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.



Sunday, March 30, 2008 18:06
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      
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
Providing ground truth reports

Updated Sunday, March 30, 2008 18:06

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