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The club reimburses the $5 Technician exam fee for anyone who gets their license at one of its sessions.","registration":"Walk-ins are welcome but pre-registration is preferred: the club says pre-registering is how you hear about a change of schedule. 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The Indiana Repeater Council is the source of its coordination details on the repeater rows (`irc`, and locations marked IRC) and of the `coordinated` list: credit the Council and link to its directory, https://flexweb.ircinc.org/search.html."}