Ashton Radio Communications Society

147.00 Repeater (146.40 in) CSQ

Echolink Node 251966

K3WX/R

Ashton, Maryland

The Ashton 147.00 repeater is located approximately between Washington DC and Baltimore MD, and provides extensive coverage throughout the area.  Click the thumbnail below to view the repeater transmit coverage area.  We will try to get a coverage map of the combined receiver coverage posted here soon.

The system is connected to the internet using Echolink, and is Echolink node 251966.

The repeater system is mostly Motorola Micor equipment.  The transmitter runs 300 watts out of a Vocom solid-state amplifier, through the duplexer to an 8db omnidirectional antenna at the 200' level on the tower.

The receiver system consists of one local and six remote receiver sites, for a total of seven receivers.  One additional remote receiver sites is planned in Northern Virginia, for a total of eight receivers.  The remote receivers are linked back to the main site by RF links.  The receiver voter is a state of the art Motorola Digitac comparator (see the picture in the photo gallery).  Receivers are currently at the following locations:

Ashton, MD

Damascus, MD

Brookeville, MD

Ellicott City, MD

Northwest Washington DC

Jessup, MD

Frederick, MD

A receiver site is in the works for the Northern Virginia area

Please note that 146.40 is NOT a simplex frequency in the Washington/Baltimore area!  It is our repeater input and we have lots of receivers on tall towers that will hear you, and repeat whatever you say all over the region.

This page still under construction.