Antenna erection was completed over the weekend of the 20/21 January 2007.
Aerial coverage tests @ 25W ERP were held over the weekend of 3/4 February, with the repeater in base station mode with Denis G0OLX providing local control using the callsign of G8CUX/P, good reports were received over the expected coverage area.
Denis received the Nov on Friday 6th July 2007, the repeater was on air available for traffic at 18.00.
The repeater is now available on echolink via an rf link from the Qth of Trevor G7ELZ, it’s node number is 383403
Co-sited with “NS” is MB7NS a 70.3875MHz digital store and forward device, it has a 2min message capacity.
MB7NS Operational date 2nd June 2009 10 Watts ERP folded Diople antenna ay 20 ft above Gnd
Motorola GM900 mobile using ADS-SR1 Simplex Repeater module.Carrier squelch operation which will record signal for upto 120 seconds, or carrier drop if before, and then replays message after 2 seconds drop of input signal.
Callsign / beacon, voice every 5 minutes morse every 10 mins.
Present time Tx ok but receiver has desense from external source , being investigated.
The group also provide and maintain GB3SEE a microwave propogation beacon located at Reigate Hill – IO91vg, radiating 1W ERP on 10,368.850 MHz.
A 24GHz beacon from the site is planned, licensed and expected to be operational before the end of 2010.
Propogation Reports on any of the above are most welcome email
denis@gb3ns.com
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