What are the odds of gaining coordinated status?
The answer to this depends on where you want to put the repeater and what band you are interested in. Take a State highway map and draw a line between Frankfort, above Manistee on the West coast, and Harrisville on the East coast. Above this line there are a few remaining possibilities for coordination on all the bands. This is closing up very quickly. There have been a great many repeaters coordinated recently in that area. This is an area where a 220 or 6m machine is almost a shoo-in, because the Upper Penninsula has no repeaters on either of those two bands, and Wisconsin separation mileage increases with the narrowing of the Lower Peninsula land mass. Now draw another line following M46 from Sandusky on the East to Whitehall on the West. The area between the northern line and M46 has virtually no possibility of coordination on two meters or 440. There are still some openings possible on 220 and 6m. The closer you get to the West coast, the more the odds increase against you, regard
