GMRS Radio Net

We will conduct a GMRS Net every Thursday Evening at 6:00pm MCC’s repeater. Please turn on your GMRS radios and participate if you are able.

Transmit on 467.675

Listen 462.675

PL tone 100 on the uplink

Thanks to funding from Oregon Community Foundation, MCC is now able to begin testing equipment and locations for a brand new General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) Repeater Network to serve the entire McKenzie River Valley. In an effort to provide the McKenzie River Community with a ground up emergency communications network, we will roll out a series of GMRS Repeaters that will soon allow communications from Hoodoo to Cedar Flat, using handheld radios.

More information about GMRS in our community HERE! 

Our plan involves using a Neighbor-to-Neighbor framework, organized into 3 zones along the river.

These Neighbor-to-Neighbor Teams are a critical element in the process of effectively organizing the community’s ability to make use of this network when it is needed. Teams will be organized around a central ‘Team Captain’ who will initiate regular testing and check-in exercises. Team members will need to understand the ‘rules of the road’ and follow proper ‘etiquette’ when using the GMRS system.

MCC or our community partners will provide training in the use of these radios and will also have a limited number of radios to distribute to residents who aren’t able to purchase a radio of their own. In order to join on of MCC’s communications teams, local residents will need to acquire a license from the FCC to use GMRS.