GB7FK B

Hi all,

After a few issues with GB7FK B over the last few months I hope finally we have it sorted.

A new antenna is installed, along with some Heliax feeder. A Pre-amp is installed on RX, nad so far its working very well indeed.

more reports soon
73 Matt

MB6EB

Been a while since I posted here.

well done to Paul M0LRE for setting up a hotspot in Eastbourne

http://www.mb6eb.co.uk

Antennas and things!

Hi All, well the repeater is now moved in the building to its new location. The antenna has also changed. on 2m the coverage seems to be very good, 70cms is not so good. 70cms has never worked that well at its present location, 2m from there provides very good mobile coverage. reports welcome as always, especailly on 2m. 73 Matt

New Antenna

New antenna + maintenance will take place Saturday 26th March

Reports from Midday welcome on GB7FK C

The repeater will be off for a short time Sat morning

73 Matt

Power and Move

Hi all,

There maybe some power outages to the repeater over the next week or so, this is due to a faulty boiler on site!
The repeater has battery backup, and so does the gateway server, but the servers power only lasts for around 40mins.

The repeater will also be moving to a different room over the next couple of months. more info soon. Its likely to be off air for a few hours.

73 Matt

All well!

Hi All,

A long time since a post. Everything continues to work well.
The antenna is slightly bent over, which will need to be looked at sometime soon. The coverage still seems to be ok. Thanks to those that have offered Help with maintenance.

The server was off for a day due to EDF work in the area. The repeaters however continued to work well on battery backup, a good chance to test the backup system. The site suffers from quite a few power outages in the winter, so the backup power is definatally needed.

GB7FK was well used for Lighthouse / Lightships on the air weekend, great to have so many contacts.

We will be hosting a School to school linkup again sometime in December with our friends from the Temple amateur radio club.

more news soon.
73 Matt

First post of 2010!

Hi all,

This is the first post here for a long time. A few updates:-

The gateway experienced issues towards the end of 2009. This was a problem with the internet provider. It took a while to sort, but is now working as normal.
The Repeaters will be moving during this year to another part of the site. the new network cabling and power supply needs to be installed before the move can take place, as well as antenna coax runs being re-routed.

If anyone has a spare DSTAR Controller, please get in touch !

thats it for now
Matt