[aprssig] APRS in the National Parks

[James]

>
> We did drive though the Sunset Volcano and Wupatki Parks and ny cranking 
> up
> the power to 50 W, got a decent trace.  For awhile APRS was my only means 
> of
> communicating with civilization as I had the wrong tone code for a 
> repeater
> that I could hear from time to time.
>

Just for a reference, in Arizona the common PL tones are 162.2 for 2m and 
100.0 for 440.
This will cover over 75% of the machines in the state.

We are blessed with many mountain top machines so no matter if it is APRS or 
voice you will have excellent coverage.




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