Guidelines

The Grizzly Mountain Repeater is an "open repeater", and is available to all licensed amateur radio operators.

Since the repeater serves a very large geographic area, and provides the only available means of emergency communication in many areas of Central Oregon, long "rag chew" contacts are discouraged. Casual QSOs are permitted, with the caveat that operators pause between transmissions to allow operators to "break" with emergency and priority traffic. Although the repeater doesn't transmit a "courtesy tone", please be courteous.

During non-emergency public service events and scheduled net operations, the repeater is available for emergency traffic but not casual contacts.

During a declared emergency, the repeater is dedicated to the exclusive use of ARES/RACES communicators.