LVRAC NETs
LVRAC TUESDAY NET
The LVRAC Net is conducted every Tuesday at 7:00 PM PST on K7UGE – LINKED repeaters on 146.940 MHz and 448.500 MHz. with standard offsets and both with a PL tone of 100Hz.
LVRAC THURSDAY “Knights” ROUND TABLE
The LVRAC Thursday “Knights” RoundTable is currently conducted every Thursday evening at 7:00 PM PST on the K7UGE – LINKED repeaters. The RoundTable is an open discussion on amateur radio topics selected by members and friends of the Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club. Please join the RoundTable every Thursday and listen to the “Hams” chew…
LVRAC SUNDAY THUNDERBIRD NET
The LVRAC Thunderbird Net meets every Sunday at 7:00 PM PST on 28.420 MHz USB (Upper Side Band). This net promotes activity on the ten (10) meter band, and encourages experimentation with antennas for both ground wave and sky wave propagation.
LVRAC Repeaters
The Las Vegas Radio Amateur Radio Club operates the K7UGE – LINKED repeaters on 146.940 MHz (PL 100.0) and 448.500 MHz (PL 100.0) both with the standard offsets.
SPECIAL NOTE: Due to Construction at Southern Hills Hospital the 448.500 MHz UHF repeater has temporarily moved to the Westgate Resort & Casino.
There is a new addition to the K7UGE family of repeaters. The new repeater is located at the City of Las Vegas Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at 7551 W. Sauer Dr., Las Vegas, Nevada. This repeater is a 2-meter VHF repeater with a frequency of 146.910 MHz, standard negative offset and a PL tone of 100.0 Hz. This repeater is currently active, so please feel free to use and test it out.
Taking Care of Our Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club Repeaters
On March 15th 2025, Gerry, K9ADY, Al, K7OSW and Chris, KC0NMZ met at the Westgate Hotel at 0900, checked in with security and proceeded to the North Elevator with an escort.
Within a few minutes the team was atop the 27-floor hotel on Paradise Road, ready to take a look at the Las Vegas Radio Amateur Club K7UGE repeaters.
The Clubs’ repeaters consist of a BridgeCom BCR-50V 2-meter repeater and a BCR-40U 70cm repeater. The 146.940 machine is capable of 50 watts of output power. It feeds a duplexer and 6 cavity filters located in a brown cabinet.
The repeaters are attached to a Sinclair Station Master VHF antenna atop the North Tower at the Westgate Hotel atop the elevator mechanical room. The BridgeCom BCR-40U 70cm repeater, the 448.500 machine, is capable of 40 watts of output power. It contains a duplexer and a 4 cavity filters inside the machines’ cabinet attached to Diamond UHF antenna. The antenna is located atop the hotel’s North Tower, 27 floors above central Las Vegas.
The club’s team spent two hours working on the repeaters. They checked the SWR on the antennas for both repeaters, as well as the SWR on both sides of the duplexer for the 2m machine. They double checked the DB 25 connectors and harness that connects (links) the two machines together.
The team also replaced coax cables from the lighting arrestor to 70cm machine along with the coax cable from the duplexer to the input (RX) of the 2m machine.
There’s more work to be done. The consensus is this trip to the roof of one of the city’s most desirable repeater locations was both productive and illuminating.
LVRAC Repeaters and Antennas on top of the Westgate Hotel
How to Program the LVRAC Repeaters into your Baofeng
Jay Frumkin – WJ3EP has created a couple of “How To” sheets on programing a Baofeng UV-5R handheld dual band UHF/VHF radio with the frequencies of the two Linked K7UGE repeaters. To print or view the sheets (one for each of the bands) click the links below.
How to Program the LVRAC VHF Repeater into a Baofeng UV-5R
How to Program the LVRAC UHF Repeater into a Baofeng UV-5R
Local Repeater Lists
Jerry Sobel – K0MBB has created a list of local 2m and 70cm repeaters in Excel spreadsheet format that can be downloaded (see directly below) and converted to a CSV file for use in importing when programming your radio with CHIRP. Click to Download Excel File
To download or view the current Southern Nevada Repeater List compiled by the Southern Nevada Council of Clubs. Click to View the Southern Nevada Repeater List
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