Socorro Repeaters

Virtial Tour of the SARA repeaters on Socorro Peak.  

• W5AQA, 146.68 MHz (-); PL = 100 Hz or 123 Hz input, 123 Hz on the output; Open Repeater; open autopatch. Located in the Socorro Peak antenna area at an elevation of 7243 ft.; lat/long: 34° 04' 18" N, 106° 57' 46"W (WGS84/NAD83), the station sponsor is the Socorro Amateur Radio Association and the control operators are David Johnson (KB5YIW)and Jim Oty (WB5GWH). The station trustee is Clarence Seagraves (AA5RH).
  • This 146.68 MHz machine is a Vertex VXR 5000 Repeater combined with a Pacific Research RI-210 Repeater Controller.
  • User Commands:

    #100	Disable tone (CTCSS) access; tone access will automatically reenabled after 10 minutes without an input to the receiver
    *100	Require tone (CTCSS) access
    911	Socorro Emergency Services
    123	New Mexico State Police (Socorro Office)
    **60	Socorro County Sheriff's Office
    *94	Prompt ID
    * + Local phone number	Autopatch
    ** + Autodial number	SARA/TARA members may request autodial assignments here

    
    
  • To call Socorro Emergency services (911) or the State Police (123), key your transmitter and those three digits.  Unkey and you should hear ringing.
  • To make local telephone exchange calls, key your transmitter, announce your intentions and callsign, key "*" and the phone number, then unkey. Autodial numbers are accessed with the command "**nn", where nn = the two digit autodial slot. 
  • To terminate your autopatch or autodial call, key "#".
  • Those who do not have PL tones on their radios may disable the CTCSS squelch on this repeater with the DTMF sequence "#100". Reenable the squelch with the keystrokes "*100".

  • Because of changes to the New Mexico Tech telephone switching  system calls to NMT -5xxx, -6xxx and -7xxx numbers are not now possible using the SARA autopatch.  This can be addressed by reprogramming the controller, but it will be some time before that can be done (8/7/07).  

   

• NM5ML, 147.24 Mz (+), PL = 100.0 Hz; Open Repeater; closed autopatch: Located in the Socorro Peak antenna area [34° 04' 18" N, 106° 57' 46" W (WGS84/NAD83)] at an elevation of 7243 ft.  The coverage area for this repeater is similar to the W5AQA VHF repeater (above).  

• WB5QZD, 444.275 MHz (+), PL = 100.0 Hz; Open Repeater: Located in the Socorro Peak antenna area [34° 04' 18" N, 106° 57' 46" W (WGS84/NAD83)] at an elevation of 7243 ft.; the station sponsor, trustee and control operator is Bob Sparks (WB5QZD).  This repeater offers good coverage to the local Socorro area. Distance coverage is similar to that of the W5AQA machine.