45th Anniversary of the first 2m digital repeater - Dec 2025

This week marks the 45th anniversary of the first operational packet radio repeater! The repeater went live on the 10th of December 1980 and it operated on a frequency of 146.580 MHz The new packet radio repeater was installed by Hank Magnuski, KA6M (now SK) at his home at Menlo Park near San Francisco. In a report on the new repeater, KA6M wrote... " Since its initial turn-on in December of 1980,…