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REPEATERS AND RECEIVE SITES

7 Repeater System

The Chicago FM Club currently operates six repeater systems; a two meter multi-receive system, two on-site 220 MHz systems, one on-site 440 MHz system and a 440 D-Star repeater. Now the 6 M repeater is on the air on the AON Bldg. The 10 M repeater is close to being on the air.


440 MHz D-STAR Repeater
The 440 repeater is on the air. Listen in on 441.90625 MHz Reflector 1C

2M Repeater

The 146.76/146.16 MHz system (107.2 PL-1B) transmits from atop the Aon Center building in downtown Chicago at a height of 1200 ft. giving it over 10,000 square miles of coverage from just south of Milwaukee on the north to DeKalb on the west and Kankakee on the south. The system has a number of receive sites in Waukegan, Barrington, Park Ridge, Downers Grove, Worth, Joliet, a local receiver atop the Aon Building, Lake Calumet and west on I-80 past Ottawa that feed the signal to a G.E. voter giving it one of the best wide-area machines in the city. Autopatch and voice-mail are amoung the many features offered to the members.

Click here to open 2M Repeater Map

440 MHz

The 443.75 MHz (+5 MHz 114.8 PL-2A) system is also atop the Aon Center building at 1200 ft.
(IRLP to be installed) - Currrently not on the air.


220 MHz Repeater North
The 220 north system (224.10 MHz) is atop a tall building 2 miles north of downtown. Coverage includes NE Illinois, SW Michigan and NW Indiana.

220 MHz Repeater South

The 224.18 MHz south side system operates from a 125 ft. tower at 111th. and Harlem Ave. in Worth IL



10 METER in PROCESS
We have received the frequecies of 29.660 transmit and 29.560 receive.
The transmitter will be in Park Ridge

6 METER Repeater

The 6 M repeater is on the air. Repeater transmits on 52.810 MHz and receives on 51.110 MHz.

PL is 107.2 and is located at the AON Center.




Here are the "8" corrected CFMC 2-Meter Sites:
           1.On Site on the Aon Building
           2.Park Ridge
           3.Waukegan
           4.Barrington
           5.Downers Grove
           6.Worth
           7.Lake Calumet
           8.Joliet