The Eastern Arizona Amateur Radio Society was founded in October of 1974, with the purpose of uniting the Amateurs in Southeastern Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico into a working group that would promote amateur radio in the region. The approximately 25 charter members were from three counties in Arizona and one county in New Mexico.
Currently the club operates several stand-alone repeater stations from Heliograph Peak. Heliograph is located south of Safford, Arizona at an elevation of 10,028 amsl.
146.90 PL 141.3 is the original stand-alone repeater sponsored by EAARS. We also have a UHF repeater on 447.825 PL 141.3 and 100.0. These repeaters are not tied into the EAARS NETWORK OF LINKED REPEATERS that also provides access to IRLP and Echolink nodes
Also on Heliograph Peak, there is a APRS radio on 144.39,the National APRS channel.
Visitors to the area are welcome to use the open repeater system that makes up the EAARS Network. If you become a regular user, we encourage you to join EAARS.
A note to those desiring to monitor EAARS when away from a radio, or out of EAARS coverage area, just go to EAARS menu at the top of any page and select REPEATERS then on the dropdown menu select Streaming Audio. It’s delayed about 25 seconds on the internet. Enjoy.