Packages Open Repeater

open-repeater

Open Repeater's CC0 list of amateur repeaters, for the repeater layer on the map

• Version recorded: 2026-10-01
• Categories: navigation-maps
• Upstream: https://www.openrepeater.org/

What it does

Installs one file, Open Repeater's whole repeater list as JSON (about 241 kB, 461 repeaters on 2026-10-01), under /usr/local/share/hammunition/data/open-repeater/. Nothing reads it on its own: hammunition maps repeaters import --from-open-repeater turns it into a repeater layer for QMapShack, Navit and phones, named "Repeaters (Open Repeater YYYY-MM-DD, CC0)" and dated by the newest entry's verification.

Why you would want it

It is the only bulk repeater directory found under an open licence (CC0): pinned, verified and mirrorable like any other data, where RepeaterBook forbids offline bundling and hearham's list cannot be pinned. Its coverage today is Sweden, Malaysia and India, with one repeater in Canada and none in the US, so it is worth installing where it covers you; it grows as people add to it.

Before it will work

Nothing. The repeater layer it feeds is written by hammunition maps repeaters import, which needs no other unit; QMapShack and Navit show the layer when they are installed.

How it installs

• data (CC0 1.0, https://www.openrepeater.org/downloads): https://www.openrepeater.org/api/downloads?format=json&country=All+countries&band=All+bands&mode=All+modes&status=All (240,723 bytes)

Known problems

Coverage is thin and uneven (see above). Positions are what contributors entered: 113 of the 461 entries had none on 2026-10-01 and are skipped, and offsets are written both in MHz and in kHz (the import reads both). Because the download URL is not dated, a pin goes stale whenever the site changes; the install then refuses the file by its digest until the pin is regenerated, unless a LAN mirror holds the pinned copy.

Keeping it current

• probe: none
• strategy: reinstall
• The file changes whenever Open Repeater's data does. The weekly pin review runs scripts/gen_open-repeater-pin.py --check, which fetches it (about 241 kB) and goes red when it no longer matches the pin; regenerating is running the script with no arguments, which writes the new digest, size and date into this manifest.

Where to get help with the software itself

Open Repeater's own site (https://www.openrepeater.org/), where a wrong or missing repeater is corrected; Hammunition only converts the file.

Source: catalog/packages/open-repeater.yaml