Coverage Map & Frequency List - West Central Florida Group, Inc

The West Central Florida Group, Inc.

A non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization to promote Amateur Radio and Emergency Communications on Florida's West Coast

NI4CE Repeater Locations and Frequencies Also known as "Big Stick", NI4CE is West Central Florida's regional VHF/UHF Amateur Radio communications connection. NI4CE covers all or parts of twelve different counties and provides seamless coverage along the areas I-75 and I-4 corridors. The system is on Echolink via kg4yzy/r (node 4429) . You can also listen to the repeater streaming live on the internet with Windows Media Player. All sites are linked via a 1.25 meter repeater in Pebbledale at 500 ft AGL 24/7. The system will also retransmit EAS severe weather alerts and other county/state emergency messages and amber alerts. For a virtual photographic tour of each of our repeater sites, click on the site name in the list below.
PEBBLEDALE West Polk County 442.825 (+) 800 ft AGL Red Circle	Predicted coverage this map depicts has been verified with countless dozens of signal reports from stations operating in a full range of environments. The circles themselves are calculated using the standardized formula for radio line of sight (4/3's earth). This coverage approximates a mobile installation at high power. For base installations with a elevated outside antenna, you can add approximately 25% more area. For handheld 5 watt operation, reduce the area by approximately 35% if inside a structure, 25% if outside. The dotted blue marks the future Lake Placid site
VERNA Central Manatee County 145.430 (-) 442.950 (+) 1035 ft AGL Light Green Circle
RIVERVIEW Hillsborough County 442.550 (+) 805 ft AGL Aqua Circle
HIGH POINT Central Pinellas County 145.290 (-) 443.450 (+) 140 ft AGL Purple Circle
PORT RICHEY via KG4YZY/r West Pasco County 442.650 (+) 146.760 (-) 245 ft (U) / 200ft (V) AGL Black Circle
All repeaters require a PL tone of 100hz to access the system. Please pause a moment between keying and talking. It takes about 1/2 a second for the system to completely get all the transmitters up and running and for others listening with tone squelch on their radio to decode the tone and open squelch. Why 70 centimeters in so many locations? Here's an explanation.
We also operate several APRS Digipeaters and APRS weather stations in our network! Verna NI4CE-10 is at 200ft AGL as a digipeater and weather station. Riverview NI4CE-12 is at 805ft AGL as a digipeater and NI4CE-11 with weather. Port Richey KG4YZY-10 is at 205ft AGL as a digipeater and KG4YZY-11 with weather. KG4YZY-11 is also an internet gateway (I-Gate) to the APRS-IS Network. All of our digipeaters support the WIDEn-N system of unproto paths.
NI4CE is open for use by all licensed Amateur Radio operators. All users of the system are asked to observe Amateur Radio Code and all FCC Part 97 rules. Only voice (phone) transmissions are permitted in English on the system.

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