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

The West Central Florida Group, Inc. is a non-profit Amateur Radio organization.   We were founded in 2001 to manage and operate West Central Florida's only regional linked amateur radio repeater system.  NI4CE covers all or parts of twelve counties in West Central Florida and provides mobile coverage along the areas I-75 and the I-4 corridors.  The system's continuing growth and annual operating expenses are supported via tax deductable donations. Please visit our support page for information on how you can help.

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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.

PEBBLEDALE
West Polk County
442.825 (+)
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

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.

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.

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.
    

Home
Page

Paul Knupke Jr
Memorial Fund

NI4CE Map &
Frequencies

Photo
Album

Daily Net
Schedule

EAS
Info

Echolink
Node Info

D-Star
Repeater

Contribute
Funds

About
WCFG


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