Welcome to the Wide Area Network Repeater System
W3WAN wanrs.com
The WAN Repeater System is managed by a team of ten 'core' members. The first hams to experiment locally with this technology were Scott Zimmerman - N3XCC and Dave Hunter - N3YFO who are responsible for sparking the interest, and tying the first few repeaters together in Cambria and Somerset Counties (PA) In July of 2010. Kevin
Custer - W3KKC added a two of his repeaters to the unnamed system in Somerset and Warren Counties in August of 2010. In November 2010, Tom Brew - K3WS added his Carrolltown repeater, as well as a DC node at his remote residence to the system. November also brought Brian Burton - KB3ORS into the core group as director of systems support. In December 2010 Kevin Custer thought up the name Wide Area Network Repeater System which was adopted as the official name. Within days, Tom Brew K3WS established our web presence. February 2011 was a busy month! Our dedicated Hub node in Warren received the 'vanity' number 2135. Jim Knox - N5NWC and Kevin Custer added the Punxsutawney repeater to the system. We also added the Blue K**b repeater in association with core member Jeff Blake - N8PSU. We wrapped up the month welcoming in core member Jeff DePolo - WN3A and his Philly Hub and high profile UHF repeater. Jeff DePolo is also responsible for forming the amateur radio club W3WAN. In July of 2011 we welcomed our ninth core member Dave Chubski - KB3UAG owner of the St. Thomas site. Our tenth member Elaine Bailey - K3EMM provides our Internat Fiber Optic Service to 2135 as well a many other support roles. We must say that all of this wouldn't be possible without the effort and cooperation of Steve Henke - W9SH, as most of our servers are using the Zipper release which you can read about below. So, in short, the "WAN-RS" is an amateur radio partnership (club) formed to promote repeater linking using VoIP (RoIP) to connect multiple repeater sites together for emergency operations, and just for fun. Based in Pennsylvania, we cover a large portion of the state, and along with 'affiliate' nodes, we cover a whole lot more. Please take the time to explore http://www.wanrepeater.net and see what's happening.
