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METRO AREA REPEATER ASSOCIATION WDØHWT REPEATER SYSTEM 146.25/.85 AND 449.800/444.800 MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, MN |
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Emergency Communications
The MARA has always placed EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS as the highest
priority of communications on the MARA repeater systems. If you have an
EMERGENCY or happen across an emergency situation, please feel free to
break-in to any normal communications and explain your situation and
ask for help. A call for help, when the repeater is not busy, will most
likely cause someone to get back to you. Even it you cannot get an
immediate response, explain your situation on-the-air, so even system
listeners might help you.
Emergency communications NETS are invited to use the MARA repeaters,
but please advise the repeater control operators of your need. The
25/85 repeater is available thru-out its coverage area in Minnesota and
Western Wisconsin for emergency uses. If time allows for you advise of
this use before the event occurs or at early in the emergency, please
contact the MARA via the web page. The amateur radio operators that
regularly use the MARA repeaters have a long history of cooperating
with this use of the MARA repeaters for Emergency Communications.
Nets for other events or practice or simulated emergency nets or
exercises are also allowed on the MARA repeaters, but please notify
MARA in advance. Nets are expected to have a net control station that
is controlling the use of the repeater at all times the net is in
operation. The MARA control operators will shut off nets that do not
have a net control operator constantly present.
Skywarn
MARA has supported Metro SKYWARN, by supplying the 25/85 repeater for
many years (maybe up to 25 years). In early 2011 Metro Skywarn and MARA
could not agree on continued terms of the 25/85 repeater use for
SKYWARN. See the Metro SKYWARN web site for info on other SKYWARN nets.
Other SKYWARN operations, in the states of Minnesota or Wisconsin where
the MARA 25/85 repeater coverage is good, is encouraged.