Welcome to the West Central Florida repeater map. You can click on the menu icon on the left hand side of the title bar and select repeaters by type. You can also expand the menu out by clicking on the small down arrow. You can then select an individual repeater from the list and get the details for that repeater. There is more information available other than just seeing the icons on the map.
*Note – since there are multiple repeaters at some locations, using the menu icon will help you expand the list, and then click on the individual repeater to display its information.
Repeaters (new/changes)
Below you will find changes that take place with repeaters in my area in West Central Florida.
Updated 09/17/2025
Analog (FM)
The NI4CE (Holiday) repeater on 443.450 is back ON-THE-AIR as of 09/17/25. The appears the repeater was struck by lightning in January. It went off the air on 09/11/25. The anticipated outage was going to be one month, but troubleshooting and equipment replacement went faster than originally anticipated.
D-Star
Although the Bartow D-Star Gateway on 444.4875/+ has been on the air now for a few years, the repeater itself has been swapped out to a newer Icom ID-RP4010V repeater. The original is now a backup unit and the Gateway is now running on the newer unit since December of 2023.
DMR
Indian Lake Estates W4VCO repeater – Joining the other Polk City and Welcome DMR repeaters is the 444.6875/+ DMR repeaters. This is linked with the other W4VCO repeaters, as well as supporting popular talkgroups such as Florida Statewide 3112.
Also, as of 09/02/25, the W4VCO repeater system has made talkgroup 3195162, the Polk Schools Radio Society talkgroup, an ALWAYS ON talkgroup. This means that someone coming in from a hotspot will now be heard on RF, coming in on this talkgroup on timeslot 2, without the need for someone locally on RF activating the talkgroup. This is good news for someone who may be traveling, or has moved, and wants to chat with friends back in Polk County.
Fusion/Wires-X
Bartow 145.270/- *** UPDATE AS OF 27JAN25 – The repeater is back online and is now, as of January 25, 2025, a Wires-X repeater ***The Bartow Fusion/Wires-X repeater, a collaboration between the Polk County Schools Radio Society, the Lakeland Amateur Radio Club, and Lake Wales Radio Amateurs, is on the air. It’s current status is that it has been operating as a Fusion repeater for some time, is now registered on the Wires-X system node ID number of 94102, as WC4PEM/R.
Hardee (Wauchula) 442.325/+ – The UHF machine in Hardee County, located at Hardee County Emergency Management, is now back online. It is using a Yaesu DR-1X repeater and supports not only Fusion but also analog. The PL tone for the FM side of the repeater is 127.3
NXDN
The NI4CE NXDN linked repeater system has once again had an upgrade. The ever growing NXDN network, which during one stretch in 2023 put three new repeaters on the air in nine days, has a new upgraded Sumter repeater on the network. The Sumter repeater on 442.0625 will be up and running on a new tower location site and coverage has greatly improved. So, if you’re traveling to the north end of the NI4CE NXDN network, give the new 442.0625 repeater a try. The antennas were hoisted and the system was online in late July 2024. Enjoy!
*** Update *** – The Sanibel NXDN repeater is OFFLINE as of 07MAY25. It is hoped that this repeater will be back online in a few weeks.
P25
The Lakeland Highlands 146.655/-, dual mode FM/P25 repeater, is now back ONLINE as of February 14, 2025. The repeater supports Narrow FM as well as P25 (NAC 293). It went offline in November 2023 and is back and better than ever.
SARNET
The Lakeland SARNET repeater on 442.275/+ with a tone of 82.5 is operational, however, the connection to the SARNET system from the Lakeland (FX1 site) is poor. Since some time in April, the repeater is receiving signals from SARNET, albeit weak and noisy. Transmissions from the SARNET Lakeland repeater were being heard on SARNET, but reception of SARNET is noisy. This could just be conditions but we have had times when our transmissions were not being heard on SARNET.
Thanks to Polk County Emergency Management, an alternative radio and antenna to access the SARNET system from the Polk County EOC has been provided. While SARNET in Lakeland is down, our current plan until the link is repaired is to use the Tampa SARNET repeater on 442.850/+ with a tone of 146.2.
The Sarasota SARNET repeater on 444.800/+ with a tone of 100.0 is no longer operational. FDOT is rebuilding the Fruitville Rd. interchange, and the current tower will be removed. This could easily be a year or more. There is no guarantee that there will be space to relocate a new tower. They are looking for someone who has an existing high repeater site that may be able to get it on the network, but there are no guarantees.