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As seen/heard on this week’s WIA National News service…

GOOGLE A REPEATER

Stuart Longland is in the process of putting together a Google Map of repeater
usage in VK.

This database is based on information determined from the WIA’s list of
repeaters, with GPS locations screen-scraped from ACMA’s online database.

It’s very much a work in progress at this stage and it is only useful for
browsing — no changes you make are actually saved by the application.

Hopefully before long, people will be able to add, edit and remove repeaters.

In addition, Stuart hopes to integrate information on which repeaters are
linked (graphically), including IRLP and EchoLink nodes.

If people wish to get in touch with Stuart, VK4FSJL there’s a number of modes
of contact on his website, or those in the Brisbane area, can get him on
VK4RBC (438.525MHz)

The site is online at http://ham.longlandclan.yi.org/

At present, it only covers VK repeaters, and is presently read-only. Those who look at the JavaScript that drives it, will probably notice it’s also very ugly behind the scenes. The perl script that runs server-side (under mod_perl) isn’t much better.

But, it’s a start… early days at the moment. When I’ve cleaned things up, I’ll release the source code for people to inspect/make changes. Once I get write support added into the DB, that should open the way for repeater information from other countries to be added. The DB has scope for adding other repeaters, as well as representing D-Star, EchoLink and IRLP nodes, however the actual code to drive this is yet to be written.

Anyway… here it is… enjoy.

Update 20080303

It is now possible to add and modify nodes. So if you know of repeaters in your area — please add them. If you see any mistakes, please correct them. I’ve also added the EchoLink and IRLP node numbers to some of the repeaters, although I suspect there may be other links I’m not aware of.

Deleting nodes is still not possible, so if something is to be deleted, specify “DELETE” in the notes field of the frequency or repeater to be deleted, and I’ll handle those manually.

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