January 1, 2011
It is with great joy that we enter the New Year of 2011.
The ETCC and OFCOM pulled out all the stops with the last minute approval of GB3NA.
Many thanks to all concerned with the GB3YR / GB3NA NoV application.
However the information on ukrepeater.net is slightly misleading.
“In a last minute clearance of 2010 OFCOM issued the NoV to allow GB3NA to be resited at Barnsley on RV49
The D-Star repeater GB7YD remains at the Rotherham site for the time being with the VHF node on RV54
Keeper is Ernie, G4LUE and more information from SYRG“
GB3NA now resides at IO93HM alongside GB3SY.
GB7YD UHF and VHF modules remain in situ at Brierely in Barnsley alongside the as yet non-operational GB3HF, IO93HN.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR READERS, RF USERS, SHORT WAVE LISTENERS & EVERYONE ELSE!
November 20, 2010
A work party consisting of G1ANI, 2E0VYV and myself G4LUE continued working on GB3NA’s new instalation commencing at 11.15am till 4pm. Totalling some 14 man hours work so far.
We are using a Diamond X5000 2/70 and 23cms antenna. We ran a 30 metre length of LDF550 digital feeder cable as analogue cable is now expensive and hard to come by. See pics in gallery
We tilted tower over, erected scaffolding and had a good time working on the installation.
We also fitted a UHF dipole for remote control all cables in to cabinet that require checking out tomorrow.
Tower put back in vertical position and raised back to 60 feet.
Also, some good news about GB3HF. I have been informed that the 50Mhz equipment should be available within the next week, this is good news as a antenna erecting party is needed for GB3HF site ASAP
GB3SY will be moved in to the new cabinet within the next few days and also GB3NA will be put in the same cabinet using the same antenna GB3NA will be tested and put in receive mode untill the NOV is issued
Ernie G4LUE
