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, users are encouraged to pause between transmissions to allow operators to "break" with emergency and priority traffic. The repeater transmits a "courtesy tone", as a reminder to listen for "breaks" which might be emergency traffic.

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.