W4SNA Repeaters

Welcome to the W4SNA repeaters page.

This system was established to promote fellowship among Amateur Radio operators in NC and VA and to encourage 6 meter FM activity.

The 53.310 and 444.750 repeaters are located on Sauratown Mountain which is about 20 miles NNW of downtown Winston-Salem, NC. The 53.950 repeater is located on Young Mountain near Cleveland, NC which is about 12 miles NW of Salisbury, NC. The repeater system covers a large portion of Piedmont North Carolina and some of the I-77 corridor in Virginia. The repeaters are linked full time with each other and with IRLP node 4069.
Sauratown Mountain Repeater Building
W4SNA Repeaters
Location
Frequency
Offset
PL Hz
Call
Sauratown Mountain, NC
444.750^*
5
100.0
W4SNA
Sauratown Mountain, NC
53.310^
-1
100.0
W4SNA
Young Mountain, Cleveland , NC
53.950^
-1
100.0
W4SNA
^ Outgoing IRLP and Echolink connections possible. Contact W4SNA for access details.
* Emergency Power
 
W4SNA APRS Weather Stations
Call Location
W4SNA-2 Sauratown Mountain, 20 Miles NNW of Winston-Salem, NC (2200' AMSL)
W4SNA-3 Pops Peak, Fancy Gap, VA (3125' AMSL)
W4SNA-4 Young Mountain,Cleveland, NC (1106' AMSL)
View looking South from repeater site on Sauratown Mountain.
Operating Guidelines
Key your transmitter for one to two seconds before speaking to allow all repeaters to “come alive”. Failure to pause before speaking will chop off the beginning of your transmission on the linked repeaters.
When checking into nets on this system do not momentarily drop your carrier to check for doubling. This drops out all of the links. When you key back up all of the repeaters must “come alive” again before you will be heard. Let the net controller deal with doubling.
Follow the net controller’s instructions when checking into nets. Not all nets are alike. Correct procedure for one net might not be the correct procedure for another.
Pause between transmissions to allow a station with emergency traffic to break in.
Say the word “BREAK” three times if you need to interrupt a conversation or net to pass emergency traffic.
Have fun.
Net Schedule
Carolina 440 Rag Chew Net
General rag chew net. Hosted by the Carolina 440 Network. Monday evening 7:30 PM Eastern Time (IRLP reflector 9210)
The Say Good Morning With Radio Net
Birthday trivia. Weather. Talk. IRLP net. Hosted by the Friday Night Net group. Monday through Saturday, 10:00 AM Eastern Time (IRLP reflector 9668)
Friday Night International Open Forum Net
International flavor. IRLP net. Hosted by FNN. Saturday, 0100 UTC (Friday evening 8:00 PM EST, 9:00 PM EDT) (IRLP reflector 9668)
All times US Eastern unless otherwise noted. Times subject to change without notice.
News
12/27/2012
New Years Eve 2012 will be a busy time on the W4SNA repeater system. The system will join the New Years Eve Worldwide QSO Party on IRLP reflector 9200 at 5:30 AM one half hour before New Zealand celebrates the New Year. The system will be connected to 9200 until 5:30 AM New Years Day which is one half hour after Hawaii celebrates the new year. There are a couple of exceptions. The system will break away to 9668 for the FNN Morning Net at 9:55 AM EST and the FNN Radio Give Away at 8:55 PM EST. The node will return to the QSO Party at the conclusion of the net and drawing.
12/27/2012
New IRLP node connection schedule:
Carolina 440 Network - 8:00 AM until 9:50 AM and 11:30 AM until 4:00 PM Monday through Friday.
Carolina 440 Network - 7:30 PM until 8:00 PM Monday evening for Carolina 440 Rag Chew Net
FNN Morning net - 9:50 AM until 11:30 AM Monday through Saturday
Friday Night Net - 0055 UTC until 0230 UTC (7:55 PM until 9:30 PM EST or 8:55 PM until 10:30 PM EDT)
IRLP node 4069 will be available for local use when not connected.
09/18/2012
The 53.310 repeater will be moving to Pops Peak, Fancy Gap, VA as soon as the move is approved by the Pops Peak site owner. The 53.310 remote receiver currently on Pops Peak will move to Sauratown Mountain. The 444.750 will remain on Sauratown Mountain.
09/01/2012
The 53.950 repeater on Young mountain is officially on the air and is linked to the system. The repeater is experiencing intermittent severe power line noise interference.
05/02/2012
The 147.045 repeater at Fancy Gap, VA has been transferred to Mike, K4EZ. The repeater is no longer part of the W4SNA system.

02/18/2012
I have coordinated a 6 meter repeater for Young Mountain in NW Rowan County near
Barber, NC and Cleveland, NC. The coordinated frequency is 53.950, offset of -1.0 MHz with a PL tone of 100.0 Hz. The repeater will be located at the Barber Junction Repeater Association 146.730 site. Here are the coordinates if you want to look it up on Google Earth.

LAT: 35.737713° LON: -80.647264°

The repeater will basically be the same hardware as the Sauratown 53.310 minus the remote receiver capabilities.

The repeater antenna is a DB Products DB212-4 four element folded dipole array with custom phasing harness. The antenna will be side mounted for omnidirectional pattern on the 100' Rohn 25 tower at the site. The center of the antenna will be located 412' above average terrain.

I am expecting 40+ mile mobile range. The repeater should provide good mobile coverage in Charlotte. The repeater will be linked full time to the Sauratown system.

Estimated on air date is late March or early April.

11/02/2011
Raleigh IRLP reflector disconnect time has been changed from 11:55 PM to 10:00 PM so the night owls can use the W4SNA repeaters without disturbing the Raleigh folks.

10/20/2011
The 147.045 repeater on Pops Peak at Fancy Gap, VA is now a full time member of the W4SNA linking system. The repeater has large coverage in western NC and VA.
08/01/2011
The W4SNA IRLP node and repeaters are linked to the Carolina 440 Network in Raleigh, NC on IRLP reflector channel 9210 from 8:01 AM until 11.55 PM daily except during the FNN nets. More info on the Carolina 440 Network can be found at http://carolina440.net/.
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