WWARA Coordination Datafiles

The Western Washington Amateur Relay Association (WWARA) makes available data dumps of the 
repeater coordination data for Western Washington repeaters. This data is made available in the 
common format of a CSV (commoa-separated values) file.

Getting Started
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The files in this archive are generated nightly and are published with two types of hams in
mind. The repeater owner (or future repeater owner) can use the information provided to 
identify potential repeater frequency pairs for coordinating a new repeaters. The current 
repeater owner can also review when their coordinations need to be renewed.

While repeater owners are the primary consumers of this information, regular repeater users can
also benefit from the information in these files. Many current radios can be programmed 
using software either provided by the radio manufacture or 3rd party solutions. The CSV files
published by the WWARA are designed to be generic and able to be consumed the software hams
used to program their radios. The WWARA-rptrlist-DATE.chirp file is specific to the open source
CHIRP programming software and is the only non-CSV file included.

The data available in the files include the normal repeater information, like the frequency, 
access mode, a general location description and latitude/longitude. The latitude and longitude 
for some repeaters has been fuzzed, at the request of the repeater owner. This means it is 
accurate up to 50 miles, rather than the exact location.

The following files are included in the archive.

readme.txt  						- This file.
copyright.txt						- copyright notice for files.
WWARA-rptrlist-DATE.csv 		- List of all coordinated repeaters in W. Washington
WWARA-pending-rptrlist-DATE.csv	- List of all pending/proposed coordination applications
								  in W. Washington
WWARA-About2Expire-DATE.csv		- List of coordinations that will expire in next six months
WWARA-Expired-DATE.csv			- List of coordinations which have expired.

Notes
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A) the general file format of the CSV files follows the definition created by the ARRL for
publishing repeater coordination information, when the ARRL still created a repeater guide.
While the ARRL no longer publishes these books, I have continued to used the format.

B) the file names listed above are obviously not exactly correct. The 'DATE' string will be
replaced with the date that the file was created.

C) if you find a mistake or error, please contact the secretary@wwara.org. Ultimately a human
is typing this information into a computer and sometimes we make errors.

73, 
Kenny, KU7M
WWARA Secretary and Database Manager

v.20251109
