At the meeting last night we had a discussion about which repeater(s) to use for the upcoming Tour de Blount event. We have a great relationship with the SMARC club and they have frequently allowed us to use their repeaters for our events, so some discussion was had about the coverage of those repeaters.

Dave, N9KMY, had previously used Radio Mobile to estimate the coverage of these repeaters and he has shared that information with us.

The attached a 4 page PDF shows the theoretical coverage of both the 146.655MHz and 443.075 MHz SMARC repeaters. To load this program Dave assumed the noted tower/antenna/power for each repeater and worked into a portable as noted on each projection.

Page 1: Repeater locations
Page 2: 443.075 at its present site
Page 3: 443.075 if it were at Res Hill
Page 4: 146.655 at its present location

With a mobile and vehicle mounted antenna the performance would be even better.
This was a projection using the known criteria within the Radio Mobile propagation program.