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The Great Falls Area Amateur Radio Club (GFAARC) sponsors and maintains several repeaters that serve both the immediate area and a wide region of north central Montana.

CALLSIGN	FREQUENCY (OFFSET)	LOCATION / NOTES
W7ECA/R ECHOLINK Connections provided by Jim Cummins N7YO	146.730 (-)	Located atop Highwood Baldy Mountain Elev. 7625 ( N 47º 26' 33" / W - 110º 37' 49" ) 35 miles east of Great Falls. It is housed in a large building with several other commercial, governmental, & military services. The repeater provides regional coverage in excess of 100 miles. - - Photo Tour - - This Repeater is also tied into the ECHO LINK VOIP system. Check out these links for ACTIVE ECHOLINK NODE LISTINGS , For on the air link commands, and club announcements, Identify with your callsign and send 1 . To turn on ECHOLINK press followed by your desired node number. AS AN ADDED PLUS, and for INCREASED COVERAGE to the South, - You can also link this repeater to the PORPHRY PEAK on King's Hill and the ZORTMAN, MT repeates Linking Details to follow To DROP any and all links send # There is also and APRS node at this location with very wide coverage.
W7ECA/R	147.300 (+)	The "Three-O" repeater is located across the interstate from the airport on from Gore Hill, and is equipped with an OPEN AUTOPATCH . GFAARC members also have access to a 6 meter link which can be accessed via this repeater or it's sister repeater on 444.350 (see below)
W7ECA/R	147.120 (+)	Located on Porphyry Peak Elev. 8192 ( N 46º 50' 17" / W - 110º 43' 03" ) Another wide area coverage repeater with different footprint than our Highwood repeater.
W7ECA/R	444.350 (+) Requires 100Hz CTCSS	Located in the same location as our "Three-O" repeater, and overlooking the city, this repeater shares building and antenna pole space with our 147.300(+) repeater. It also has an OPEN AUTOPATCH . Plans for additional features and links are under study.
The Great Falls MRLA Custodian is AA7GS George Forsyth	MRLA SYSTEM (Linked) 146.680 (-)	Located at the "KNEES" approximately 35 miles North of Great Falls, this repeater is linked FULL TIME into the MRLA system. Since coverage is somewhat limited in different parts of the city, you can also access this repeater (and the MRLA system) via 446.680 Simplex. The Montana Repeater Link Association is a group of repeaters that are normally linked full time. They are located in Pompeys Pillar, Billings, Greycliff, Bozeman, Three Forks, Helena and Great Falls Montana. The MRLA systems can also be linked to the Utah VHF Society's portion of the Intermountain Intertie, also known as the Snowbird link, with the potential of linking South through UTAH - all the way to Phoenix Az. Access codes to the intermountain intertie are 196 (ON) and 197 (off) PLEASE VISIT THE LINKS ABOVE for proper procedures and more information about these linked systems. MRLA's access to the Snowbird link will be dropped after about 10 minutes of inactivity. When Using Linked Repeaters of these systems, key your microphone, and wait about second for all the repeaters to come on-line before talking. Please end your use of the MRLA system by stating your callsign. It might also be a nice gesture to give your approximate area, so that others know where you are calling from. I.E.: "Great Falls", "Billings", "Big Timber", etc.
W7GMC Dual Function Simplex Node Echolink & IRLP owned and maintained by KEN HANKS W7GMC	145.700 SIMPLEX w/ 100Hz CTCSS	CURRENT IRLP NODE LIST For IRLP use, simply key in the IRLP node number desired. For Echolink use enter a * before the Echolink Node number. To disconnect either link on this node, enter "73" GENERAL TIPS FOR USING ANY ECHOLINK or IRLP NODES Please wait a full second or two between transmissions. In addition, wait a second or two after you press your mic button before talking.
W7ECA/R	147.260(+)	ZORTMAN Located on Antione Peak in the Little Rockies range near ZORTMAN. This repeater can be linked to the Highwood Baldy Repeater (above) and offers very wide coverage across a large area in central Montana. The Link can be controlled from either the Zortman or the Great Falls end. CONTROL CODES FOR THIS REPEATER WILL BE PUBLISHED SHORTLY. - Please Check back.

145.550 and 146.520 are the favorite "local talk" FM Simplex frequencies.

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Great Falls Area Amateur Radio Club
Attention: Club President
P.O. Box 1763
Great Falls MT 59403-1763

Connect * (Plus the Node Number)
Play Info A1
Query Call Call sign A2
Query Node Number A3
Connect to random Conf A4
Connect to random Link A5
Connect to random Node A6
Connect to random user A7
Reconnect last connection A8
Echolink status A9