Interesting subject. I however only travel north and south since I live in central CA. east and west have little meaning. But, here is what I do which is quite simple.
I use channel 15 as the home memory location, on both VHF and UHF operation. The memory channels going "up" take me progressively into northern CA, OR, and WA. The channels "down" take me to southern CA. Then it is a simple task to merely click up or down accordingly. Very limited hunting. Cheers, Mel. K6KBE ________________________________ From: Phil Hystad <phys...@mac.com> To: "elecraft@mailman.qth.net Reflector" <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 9:46 AM Subject: [Elecraft] Slightly Off-Topic: Roving update of default repeater station This question has nothing to do with Elecraft rigs (well, possibly remotely if I assume a KX3 as mobile with the future to be provided 2-meter option). Yesterday I drove to Portland from my QTH of Kirkland near Seattle. This is a 3 1/2 hour trip down I-5 (and, the return). In the Seattle area, I had my 2-meter mobile rig in my truck sitting on a repeater frequency but it was not too long before I was out of range of that repeater. I wondered briefly about changing to some nearby closer repeater but it was not that important to me but I started thinking about an automated way to do this. I have GPS in various guises with my Truck (iPhone, iPad, and my little Garmin GPS at times), so what if I had a way of extracting location, looking up location of nearest repeater in my database (if I had one), and then having a interface to my rig to update the repeater frequency, split offset, tone, etc. All very possible. So, my question: Does such a thing now exist? I don't pay enough attention to repeater-life to know what other hams may have already created? 73, phil, K7PEH ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
