# RepeaterBook MCP Server

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

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `repeaterbook` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Reviewed GitHub reports

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

### Most discussed

### 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:

```python
(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](https://github.com/MicaelJarniac/repeaterbook/issues/62) · 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](https://github.com/MicaelJarniac/repeaterbook/issues/77) · 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](https://github.com/MicaelJarniac/repeaterbook/issues/70) · 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

```bash…

[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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