The St. Charles Amateur Radio Club

The club's first VHF repeater WB0HSI is on 146.67 (-) Fusion DN and FM CTCSS 141.3. Located north of I-70 between O'Fallon and Lake St. Louis.

Carl KJ0A suggests using two adjacent memory channels, 1st with 146.67 (-) 141.3 on both TX and RX (with RX enabled, you won't hear digital "noise" if the repeater is in Fusion mode), 2nd with 146-67 (-) with DN selected. Then you can switch between channels for the mode you want to use. Please be courteous and check both channels before transmitting.

The club's second VHF repeater KO0A is on 145.33 (-) CTCSS 141.3 located near Lindenwood college in St. Charles. It has three remote receive sites; downtown St. Louis, Warrenton, and Augusta as well as the main repeater site.

The KO0A system employs a voter that monitors the signal from the three associated remote receive sites, plus the main site and "votes" the cleanest signal to be transmitted through the repeater in real time. Whenever a remote is voted, it will ID along with the main repeater at ten minute intervals. If multiple remotes have been used during a ten minute period, all of those will be ID'd along with them main site.

The third repeater WB0HSI is on UHF 444.65 (+) and is co-located with the KO0A VHF repeater in St. Charles. This system does not have any remote sites.
This repeater, by default, is set to DMR mode, Color Code 2. TS1 = TG31292 STL Metro is static, TS2 is dynamic PTT through Brandmeister, thus all Brandmeister TG's can be used on TS2. The TG will time out 10 minutes after the last transmission into the WB0HSI repeater. So, if you linked to TG31012 (QuadNET) for example to participate in a net, you'd need to transmit at least every 9 minutes to reset the timer.

As a courtesy to others, when you are finished please transmit a group call to TG4000 to dicsonnect the TG you were using and make TS2 available for others. Other TG's of general interest: TG91 Worldwide English, TG93 Northa America, TG3100 USA, TG31600 US Call Area 0, TG3129 Missouri Statewide. TG31012 QuadNET is transcoded to other digital modes so that hams can converse with others using the digital mode of their radio: D-Star using XLX307D or XRF757A, YSF using US QuadNET Array 35947, US C4FM NA YCS310 server DG-ID 80.

The UHF repeater can also be used on FM voice as long as it is not currently being used for one of the digital modes, by transmitting on FM using CTCSS tone 141.3 hz. Note that this esentially a backup for emergency use, due to the fact that none of the digital modes will recognise a FM signal.

The UHF repeater is also a multi-mode repeater, when not in use for DMR. Fusion DN can be used.

SCARC supports emergency communications through the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN), which utilizes the KO0A 145.33 (-) CTCSS 141.3 repeater as it's primary repeater system in this area.