Back in the early 80’s, there were only a handful of repeaters on the 440 Mhz Amateur band. All of these were independently owned and operated-NONE of them were Club sponsored.
\nThe repeaters and their calls:
\n442.15 WA\u00d8LHK (Now W\u00d8LHK)
\n442.20 N\u00d8CHT (SK)
\n443.40 N\u00d8AW
\n444.10 WB\u00d8FAQ
\nAround 1983, a few more were co-ordinated and came on the air.
\n444.55 N\u00d8BIW (now K\u00d8XM)
\n444.975 N\u00d8EUH (Now W\u00d8NQX);
\n442.25 WD\u00d8GXL (Now K\u00d8GXL)
\nAbout this time one of the local clubs decided to put a 440 machine on the air at a commercial site. Some of the “high and mighties” in the club were saying that since they had a commercial site, all of the other machines on UHF were “backyard repeaters”. Hearing this phrase, and not caring about the MIGHTY 25, Chuck-N\u00d8BIW (now K\u00d8XM), and Bob-N\u00d8EUH, took the phrase and wanted to make it a positive thing. We decided to have FUN and remember this was a hobby and not a lifestyle. We were bound and determined that if ANYONE ANYWHERE needed assistance in any aspect of the hobby, we would offer our assistance. On that day the BYRG was formed. The original members were N\u00d8BIW, N\u00d8EUH, WA\u00d8LHK, N\u00d8CHT, K\u00d8LW, KC3OL, WB\u00d8AAQ, N4MSE, KD\u00d8FW (now W\u00d8MB) and WD\u00d8GQA. To this very day, the original purpose of the BYRG stands true: To remember that this is a hobby, have fun doing it, be there if needed, and that PACKET STILL SUCKS!!!!
\n73 Chuck\/ K\u00d8XM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Back in the early 80’s, there were only a handful of repeaters on the 440 Mhz Amateur band. All of these were independently owned and operated-NONE of them were Club sponsored. The repeaters and their calls: 442.15 WA\u00d8LHK (Now W\u00d8LHK) 442.20 N\u00d8CHT (SK) 443.40 N\u00d8AW 444.10 WB\u00d8FAQ Around 1983, a few more were co-ordinated and … Continue reading “The BYRG…how we came to be…….”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/c5.byrg.net\/WP_BYRG_WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/c5.byrg.net\/WP_BYRG_WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/c5.byrg.net\/WP_BYRG_WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c5.byrg.net\/WP_BYRG_WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c5.byrg.net\/WP_BYRG_WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/c5.byrg.net\/WP_BYRG_WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"http:\/\/c5.byrg.net\/WP_BYRG_WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/c5.byrg.net\/WP_BYRG_WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c5.byrg.net\/WP_BYRG_WWW\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}