Question 1

What are URCALL, CALL1, CALL2?

mikie · Accepted Answer

text

Question 2

What are the D-Star settings for your Repeaters?

mikie · Accepted Answer

Our Settings

Question 3

What is the difference between the D-Star repeater and D-Star on the Digital Repeater?

mikie · Accepted Answer

text

Question 4

What does FARG stand for?

mikie · Accepted Answer

FARG is the Frederick Amateur Repeater Group.

Some have called it the Friendly Amateur Repeater Group which is a great compliment and demonstrates the hard work that has been put into this system since the 1960's to make is a community and friendly fraternity of radio operators.

Question 5

How do I program My Bayofeng for your FM Repeater?

mikie · Accepted Answer

W3FDK on 146.73

The 146.73 repeater has a negative offset, you will need to configure your radio with the following details to be able to talk through the repeater:

Receive Frequency: 146.73
Transmit Frequency: 146.13 (a negative offset of .6 Mhz)
PL Tone: 141.3

Using our pre-configured config file for Chirp:

Programming a Baofeng for this repeater:

Program a Wouxun Radio for this repeater:

Program a radio with Chirp for this repeater:

Question 6

How do I add your FM Repeater to my Wouxun?

mikie · Accepted Answer

W3FDK on 146.73

The 146.73 repeater has a negative offset, you will need to configure your radio with the following details to be able to talk through the repeater:

Receive Frequency: 146.73
Transmit Frequency: 146.13 (a negative offset of .6 Mhz)
PL Tone: 141.3

Program a Wouxun Radio for this repeater:

Question 7

What is a Codeplug?

mikie · Accepted Answer

The term Codeplug has been popularized in recent years because of the rise of DMR, a commercial digital voice mode that has been adapted to Ham Radio.

Put simply, it is the config file that can be used to program a radio. Some people use Chirp or other software to program their radio. A codeplug is simply that config file.

The term originated from Motorola from back in the day when there was a physical “plug” that was used to setup the radio. DMR was popularized by Motorola and the term Codeplug is common among Motorola equipment.

Since DMR has become popular people have been using the term Codeplug to represent any radio config.

Question 8

How do I add your FM repeater using Chirp?

mikie · Accepted Answer

W3FDK on 146.73

The 146.73 repeater has a negative offset, you will need to configure your radio with the following details to be able to talk through the repeater:

Receive Frequency: 146.73
Transmit Frequency: 146.13 (a negative offset of .6 Mhz)
PL Tone: 141.3

Using our pre-configured config file for Chirp:

Program a radio with Chirp for this repeater:

Question 9

Who is the Mid-Atlantic Wireless Communication Group

mikie · Accepted Answer

answer here

Question 10

What does it cost to become a member of the MAWCG?

mikie · Accepted Answer

$0

Question 11

I see you have nets, where can I get details when and where they are?

mikie · Accepted Answer

Have you ever heard the saying “We drink our own cool-aid”. Anyways, we use hamsocial.org to publish all of our nets and events.

You can also find some of our custom written software baked in to hamsocial.org. If you don’t have an account over there, you should, so go do that now at hamsocial.org

Now, off to see if cool-aid is still available and get some.

Question 12

How does the Mid-Atlantic Wireless Communication Group Make Money?

mikie · Accepted Answer

Short Answer, we don't.

Question 13

How do I program My Bayofeng for your FM Repeater?

mikie · Accepted Answer

W3FDK on 146.73

The 146.73 repeater has a negative offset, you will need to configure your radio with the following details to be able to talk through the repeater:

Receive Frequency: 146.73
Transmit Frequency: 146.13 (a negative offset of .6 Mhz)
PL Tone: 141.3

Using our pre-configured config file for Chirp:

Programming a Baofeng for this repeater:

Program a Wouxun Radio for this repeater:

Program a radio with Chirp for this repeater:

Question 14

How do I add your FM Repeater to my Wouxun?

mikie · Accepted Answer

W3FDK on 146.73

The 146.73 repeater has a negative offset, you will need to configure your radio with the following details to be able to talk through the repeater:

Receive Frequency: 146.73
Transmit Frequency: 146.13 (a negative offset of .6 Mhz)
PL Tone: 141.3

Program a Wouxun Radio for this repeater:

Question 15

How do I add your FM repeater using Chirp?

mikie · Accepted Answer

W3FDK on 146.73

The 146.73 repeater has a negative offset, you will need to configure your radio with the following details to be able to talk through the repeater:

Receive Frequency: 146.73
Transmit Frequency: 146.13 (a negative offset of .6 Mhz)
PL Tone: 141.3

Using our pre-configured config file for Chirp:

Program a radio with Chirp for this repeater:

Question 16

What are the D-Star settings for your Repeaters?

mikie · Accepted Answer

Our Settings