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Use it freely; see https://indianahamradio.com/data/index.json for per-dataset provenance. 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."}