Here's a point of clarification:
Beaverton is a suburb of Portland, Or and is located in Washington County.
Gresham is also part of Portland, but is on the other side of town. Here
are a couple of the repeaters I am trying to access are 145.27 and 147.38.
I hope this helps.

Eric

"Dick" LeadWinger wrote in message
...
I had to remind myself where Beaverton is. I was thinking it was in
the Portland area. Now that I see it is close to the coast in
southern Oregon, I would really doubt that you will have much luck
accessing a repeater with an HT. I have traveled and camped for years
along the Oregon coast when we lived in Eugene, and most of the time I
had great difficulty accessing more than one noisy repeater. And that
was with a 5/8-wave on the top of a 37' aluminum motorhome. I think
you are expecting too much from an HT. You might be able to hit the
146.61 machine in Coquille, or the 146.92 in Myrtle Point. The Coos
Bay repeaters all require a P/L tone.

Dick - W6CCD

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:59:19 -0700, Dick LeadWinger wrote:

Give us a list of 3 or 4 repeaters you are trying to access, and we
might be able to give better advice.

Dick - W6CCD


On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 02:16:03 GMT, "Eric Patterson"
wrote:

John and others:
Thanks for the advice. I checked in an online repeater directory
and
most of the repeaters I tried to access do not require a tone. As for
checking the tones and repeater shift, I can't do that on my own because
I
am visually impaired and am not able to see the display. Even though I
am
only putting out 2.3 watts, that shouldn't be the problem because I have
used that same power output to access repeaters in Gresham, Salem, and
Medford. Do you have any other recommendations?