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7 Repeater System
The Chicago FM Club currently operates four repeater systems; a two meter multi-receive system, two on-site 220 MHz systems and one on-site 440 MHz system.
D-STAR
In process of being purchased and installed.
2M System
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, Schaumburg, 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.
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)
220 MHz 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 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 AWAITING SHIPMENT
We have received the frequecies of 52.18000 transmit and 51.11000 receive.
Transmitter will be at the AON Center.
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