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RepeaterBook MCP Server

Look up amateur radio repeaters from RepeaterBook.com by location, band, and mode.

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Published as repeaterbook on pypi. Runs locally.

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5 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps.

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ARES/RACES/SKYWARN/CANWARN carry "Yes"/"No" strings — should be bool | None

Split out from the docs audit in #61, where an example querying these fields silently returned nothing.

The trigger

docs/examples.md had this, and it looked entirely reasonable:

(Repeater.ares == True) | (Repeater.races == True) | (Repeater.skywarn == True)

It matched zero rows and raised nothing, because these are str | None columns holding "Yes". The docs are now fixed to use .is_not(None), but the underlying question is whether the model has the right type…

Read the thread · 2026-09-01 · closed · 3 comments

square_bounds excludes in-radius points when the radius crosses a pole or the antimeridian

Found while bringing tests/test_utils.py to 100% for #76. The two old wrap-around tests had their assertions inside if blocks that never fired, so they asserted nothing; rewriting them as real assertions exposed this.

The problem

square_bounds (src/repeaterbook/utils.py:160-183) only handles one degenerate case: a radius so large that the four great-circle destinations have all gone past the antipode, at which point south > north and west > east and the box is opened to the…

Read the thread · 2026-09-04 · open · 0 comments

RepeaterSpec drops emergency-service data entirely

Split out from #62, which raised this as follow-up work once the storage type was settled. #67 settled it.

Current state

After #67, Repeater models emergency services properly: ares/races/skywarn/canwarn are tri-state booleans, and Repeater.emergency_services returns a frozenset[Emergency].

RepeaterSpec exposes none of it. spec.py:167-193 has no emergency field, repeater_to_specs never reads one, and the published JSON Schema…

Read the thread · 2026-09-02 · open · 0 comments

RepeaterBook never disposes its engine, leaking SQLite connections

Split out from #67, which made this easier to notice but did not cause it.

The problem

RepeaterBook.engine is a @cached_property, so the SQLAlchemy Engine — and its connection pool — lives as long as the object. Nothing ever calls engine.dispose(), and the class exposes no close() or context-manager protocol, so a caller has no supported way to release the handle either.

database.py has no dispose, close, __enter__ or __exit__ anywhere in it.

Reproducing


[Read the thread](https://github.com/MicaelJarniac/repeaterbook/issues/68) · 2026-09-02 · open · 0 comments

### search_repeaters returns naive last_update, failing MCP date-time schema validation

## Summary

`RepeaterSpec.last_update` is typed as `datetime` and published in the JSON Schema with `format: "date-time"`, but `repeater_to_specs` constructs it as a **naive** datetime. Pydantic serializes a naive datetime without a timezone offset (`2026-08-27T00:00:00`), which is **not valid RFC 3339** `date-time`. Strict MCP clients validate structured tool output against the declared schema and reject every result row.

## Impact

`search_repeaters` (and any tool returning specs, e.g.…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/MicaelJarniac/repeaterbook/issues/50) · 2026-08-27 · closed · 0 comments

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