PNW DMR's Sponsors, Supporters and Donors

PNW DMR is a regional association of individuals who collectively, provide the repeaters, networking and ongoing maintenance and subscription costs to keep our DMR network organization operational.

This page is meant to publically acknowledge those individuals, groups and businesses who are actively supporting the PNW network growth and maintenance.  Our repeater owners are the moving force behind our regional growth and honestly, they go beyond that by donating here as well. Individual support efforts by our users is welcome and will be memorialized here also.

Typically only 5% of a club's members voluntarily support a club's efforts when there is no dues structure in place, so those who do so voluntarily go above and beyond and are listed below because they merit acknowledgment.  If you feel inclined to actively support PNW DMR, we suggest a nominal $25 annual donation, less than the cost of 1 Starbuck's drip coffee a month.  If every member were to donate, we could fully fund our ongoing monthly costs as well as fund 3 new repeaters each year or better afford the best and most expensive mountaintop sites.

We are now using PayPal Pools now to enable public tracking of our donations.

As of October 2018, our monthly ongoing costs are about $850 a month for most of the Washington repeaters and networking.  A casual observer can see that we typically average about $110 in monthly donations.  A typical repeater deployment at a commercial site costs $4,500 to $5,500 just in hardware costs.  The site rent and Internet is another $700-$1,250 at the typical annual ongoing costs.  There are countless hours for planning, trips, tower climbers as well as maintenance and tweaks after the initial installations.  Some installations have 5 hour one-way drives.  Some repeater owners never use their own repeaters as they are located too far away from their home areas.  All of this is a significant investment by a very few dedicated repeater owners who shoulder most of the costs for our community repeater growth and network expansion.  This is not sustainable, so changes are in the wind and we will recognize those who have made the leap to voluntarily support the good of the network.

For those who do not actively support PNW, please make an effort to seek out your repeater owners and others listed on this page and extend to them your appreciation for their dedication to help maintain and expand DMR coverage in our region.

Our Supporters and Sponsors

RavenNet Raven-Net-Systems,-LLC www.ravennetsystems.com
	Manufacturer of the c-Bridge and other DMR networking platforms
	CoLo home to the DCI c-Bridge since 2011			VPS host for the PNW c-Bridge, BGP announcing and IP provider for many of our repeaters

	CoLo home to our Spokane servers and providing HamWAN connectivity			CoLo home to our Bremerton c-Bridge and servers with RF backbone connectivity to HamWAN