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The Plymouth repeater is back on line after being down since October 2025. Pretty much everything in the cabinet was updated and replaced. If you are in the area that is served by this repeater we are looking for signal and audio reports.

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After many years of building out the FM38 network we have finally formalized things and created a nonprofit 501c3 organization. We have big plans to keep adding sites and improving the system but it takes a lot of effort and of course some $$. As we don't have a formal membership and dues structure we rely on our great volunteers to do the work and donate funds. As this is now a tax exempt organization your donations are tax deductible in addition to benefiting ham radio as a whole. We look forward to many more years of advancing the hobby and having fun while doing it. If you would like to donate, click the link to the right.

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Hey Manitowoc!!
Welcome to the FM38 repeater network. Manitowoc has been online since 15-Nov, frequency of 442.600, PL 123.0. This has been added to the repeater list here.
Enjoy the new repeater
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New FM38 linked repeater is on the air!!
Welcome Janesville to the FM38 network. The frequency is 443.625 Tone 123.0
If that seems somewhat familiar it's because it's also the frequency for our Oshkosh repeater. If you have that saved in a memory channel already than you're done 🙂
Looking for people to test it in the Janesville/Beloit/Edgerton area and see how it works. For those keeping score this is repeater #20 for the network. Many thanks to the folks that help install, maintain and donate time and funds to this endeavor.
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Hey, great news. It was reported this morning that Allenton was back on air reconnecting Allenton, Baraboo, Ripon and Oshkosh, Fond du lac, Plymouth and Green Bay.
We are not sure what happed as no site visit was performed. Perhaps ice on the antenna that finally broke loose. Lets see what this next storm brings.

Sorry folks, the Allenton repeater went offline this morning for unknown reasons. Due to the system topography, Allenton being a 'Hub', this results in Allenton, Oshkosh, Baraboo and Ripon being offline. Fond du lac, Plymouth and Green Bay continue to operate locally, isolated from Milwaukee.
We will schedule a service call after the weather improves.

Hello Sturgeon Bay, WI.
444.475+ Tone 123

Welcome to the FM38 Repeater Network.

Now you can. The Delafield repeater is back online and this means Madison is re-linked to the system as well.

Good news, no equipment loss, just 3 blown fuses on the AC side of power.

Happy Transmitting!
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Unfortunately, our Delafield repeater experienced a failure on 2-April. With this failure, Delafield and Madison are disconnected from the FM38 system. We think it is a power supply and will require a service call to diagnose and repair. This will take some time to schedule.

Hope to have you folks back on the system soon.

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the FM38 team.

The receive site south of Milwaukee is currently down. We hope to address the issue at the end of the week.

In and around Kenosha, portable stations will be noisy and mobiles will need to run high power.