Active Repeaters in Metro West Boston?

[aeromarine]

I'm new to the hobby and was curious about which are some of the more active repeaters in the Boston area that I might be able to hit with my hand held. I live near Hanscom Field and have been listening to the Westford repeater (WB1GOF). Other there any others you might recommend? I look forward to hearing back! Thanks!!

Cheers!
Aeromarine

 

[cockpitbob]

I'm not very active on 2M these days, but if I recall the Boston-21 machine is pretty active and so is the Waltham repeater. Stretching up to the North Shore, the Danvers 2M repeater gets a fair amount of use.

Here's a couple of web sites that list repeaters. The first one shows them in map form making it easy to see how far from home they are.

http://www.levinecentral.com/repeaters/google_mapping.php

http://www.nerepeaters.com/

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[tcpsyn]

146.760 and 146.970 are the most active that I know of. They may reach to Metro west

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[Rider]

Also keep in mind that we live in a hilly region, so you might find that you can't hit some repeaters. Also, a mobile antenna or a small beam antenna, or even a better whip for your HT will improve your range a lot. I'm about 30 miles west of Boston and I can hear a few repeaters(when they're active) but can't key them up without my mobile antenna. 147.15 in Framingham is 5x5, but no one ever talks on it.