ARLA/CLUSTER: ARRL announces partnership with RFinder - The Worldwide Repeater Directory

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

The *ARRL* has established an agreement with *RFinder*
<http://www.rfinder.net/>, the creator of a web and app-based directory of
Amateur Radio repeaters worldwide, to be its preferred online resource of
repeater frequencies.

RFinder is a steadily growing worldwide repeater directory with over 50,000
repeater listings in over 170 countries. An annual $9.99 subscription to
RFinder provides access to repeater data through its collection of apps for
Android and Apple devices, and from nearly any web browser.

With one subscription, users have access to repeater data worldwide from
computing devices on *Windows*, Mac, Linux, Android, Apple iOS, and popular
GPS systems. A growing list of third-party memory programming applications
support radio programming. RFinder provides integrated support for
*EchoLink* on Android and iPhone, allowing users a one-click connection to
repeaters worldwide from the directory.

“The RFinder team is honored to be ARRL's partner, providing the very
latest online repeater information and directory technology for radio
amateurs in the United States,� said *Bob Greenberg, W2CYK*, creator of
RFinder — The Worldwide Repeater Directory. “We look forward to working
with ARRL to make RFinder even better for US hams.�

ARRL will receive a portion of each annual subscription to RFinder.
US radio amateurs who subscribe to RFinder will have online access to its
entire worldwide directory while supporting ARRL.

ARRL will discontinue its own products that had supported digital listings
of repeater data including the *TravelPlus for Repeaters*â„¢ software and its
own apps. ARRL is working with RFinder on a plan to migrate existing ARRL
app users to RFinder, in order to support remaining subscription terms.

“Rest assured that the printed *ARRL Repeater Directory*, updated and
published each year, will continue to be produced,� said ARRL Marketing
Manager *Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R*. Inderbitzen explained that *The ARRL*
*Repeater
Directory*, available in pocket-sized
<http://www.arrl.org/shop/The-ARRL-Repeater-Directory-Pocket-size/> and spiral
bound desktop
<http://www.arrl.org/shop/The-ARRL-Repeater-Directory-Desktop-Edition/>
editions, is especially popular with new radio amateurs, mobile and
portable operators, and public service volunteers who rely on the printed
copies when they are offline and on the go.

ARRL’s source of repeater data for *The ARRL Repeater Directory* is
voluntarily contributed information from repeater owners and frequency
coordinators in the US and Canada. RFinder, on the other hand, assembles
its data from worldwide sources, including repeater owners, national and
regional coordinating bodies, and carefully reviewed crowd-sourced
contributions. RFinder uses dynamic data, allowing users to access listings
that regularly reflect new, updated, revised, and deleted information.

RFinder will have an exhibit at the upcoming Orlando HamCation
<http://www.hamcation.com/>®, this year’s ARRL National Convention
<http://www.arrl.org/expo>, February 12-14, at the Central Florida Fair and
Expo Park in Orlando, Florida. “We are excited and proud to announce our
partnership during the ARRL National Convention!� Greenberg said.

ARRL is the most recent national Amateur Radio society to establish a
partnership with RFinder. RFinder is the official repeater directory of
Radio Amateurs of/du Canada, the Radio Society of Great Britain, the
Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (Germany), and others.

Subscribe to RFinder by visiting http://subscribe.rfinder.net from your
iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or from your Android smartphone or tablet. Those
without an Apple or Android device can subscribe using the link at the
bottom of http://subscribe.rfinder.net/.
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