Resources
Club Linked Repeaters
The Dixie Amateur Radio Club has a linked repeater system. Here are the new frequencies that you can use. These are open repeaters available to any Amateur to use:
​
-
145.490 MHz Utah Hill (covering most areas of the southern county, northern Clark County, NV)
-
146.640 MHz Webb Hill (coverage of metropolitan St. George, Washington)
-
145.450 MHz Toquerville (coverage of northern Washington County, Hurricane/LaVerkin - eastern Washington County areas)
-
​
Remember, the frequency that you should have your transceiver's receiver set on is the frequency shown above. You should have the transmit offset set to minus (-) 600kHz and each of these repeaters require a 100hz CTCSS tone to access them.
All you need to do is key up on one of the 2 meter DARC repeaters, count to two to get time for the links to all come up, identify yourself.
The DARC repeaters are:
-
145.490, minus 600khz transmit offset, with 100.0Hz CTCSS tone,
-
145.450, minus 600khz transmit offset, with 100.0Hz CTCSS tone, and
-
146.640, minus 600khz transmit offset, with 100.0Hz CTCSS tone.
-
​
The 145.49 is a high elevation mountaintop repeater with good general wide-area coverage. The 145.45 is a medium level machine that works best in the Hurricane area. Up to the Zion park entrance works on a mix of 145.49 and 145.45 with .45 being the best overall. The 146.64 is a low level machine for St. George and Washington area coverage. All three of these repeaters are normally linked.
Intermountain Intertie
The Intermountain Intertie is a system of linked repeaters managed by the Utah VHF Society. The repeaters can be used by anyone, but it is encouraged that you join them so they have the funds to manage and maintain the repeaters. The web site has a list of repeaters that are managed by the Utah VHF Society, and a list of all the repeaters in Utah. The Utah VHF Society has a repeater on Utah Hill in St George - output frequency is 146.820, input frequency is 146.220, subtone 100 Hz.
The Utah VHF Society web site: https://utahvhfs.org/
Join the National Organization for Amateur Radio (ARRL)
We strongly encourage you to join and remain a member of the American Radio Relay League, Inc. (ARRL) "The National Organization for Amateur Radio". Our Club is an ARRL Affiliated Club!
Please click HERE to access the application. Fill out the application and mail it in.
Utah VHF Society Membership
Please consider also joining the Utah VHF Society. The Utah VHF Society (UVHFS) is a non-profit organization founded in 1968 to promote and coordinate the installation and use of VHF/UHF amateur repeaters throughout Utah. The society also provides financial support for aligned repeaters and serves as the recognized Frequency Coordination entity for the state of Utah.
With your dues, please mention your callsign (if you are licensed). Dues are $15.00 per year. Membership runs for the calendar year, so all members (except those who have paid for multiple years) will be current through December 31 of the same year. Additional information can be found by clicking on their web site using this link: http://utahvhfs.org/
To join the UVHFS by paying dues, go to this page on their web site: http://utahvhfs.org/uvhfs_join_re.
See the Repeater page to get more information about their repeaters.
Washington County ARES
The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) is a nationally organized group of over 35,000 federally licensed amateur radio operators who have voluntarily registered their services and formed an organized pool of operators to provide reliable primary and secondary communications links for governmental agencies and/or non-profit organizations when needed.
Local ARES groups participate under the "umbrella" of the national ARES organization which is administered as part of the American Radio Relay League, the National Organization for Amateur Radio.
Locally the Washington County ARES group partners with government and non-government disaster response agencies Washington County, Utah to provide communications capabilities when existing capabilities are overwhelmed or incapacitated.