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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. All sites are linked via a 1.25 meter repeater
in Pebbledale at 500 ft AGL 24/7. For a virtual photographic tour of each of our
repeater sites, click on the site name in the list below.
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PEBBLEDALE
West Polk County
442.825
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800 ft AGL
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- Inner lime green circle is 5 watt hand held HT coverage inside a building.
- Middle aqua color is 50 watt mobile coverage based on a 5ft high antenna.
- Outer yellow color is 50 watt base coverage based on a 30ft high outdoor
antenna.
All our site's coverage prediction maps are produced with Radio
Mobile using the Longley-Rice 4/3 earth model with extremely accurate
Shuttle Radar Topography data.
Information about our D-Star Digital Voice repeater is at
dstar.ni4ce.org
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VERNA
Central Manatee County
145.430 (-)
442.950 (+)
1035 ft AGL
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RIVERVIEW
Hillsborough County
442.550 (+)
805 ft AGL
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HIGH POINT
Central Pinellas County
145.290
(-)
443.450 (+)
140 ft AGL
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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.
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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
ground weather.
All of our digipeaters support the WIDEn-N system of unproto paths.
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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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