Duhallow Repeater Group

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The Duhallow Repeater Group have set up a FM Simplexer for the Four Meter band.

The callsign of this simplexer is EI4SMR and operates on 70.375mhz FM. It is located on Musheramore Mountain, in north County Cork.

The device was installed on Wednesday 11th June to enhance FM activity on the 4M band.

Also back on air over the recent months is the Duhallow UHF repeater operating from the same site with a new antenna installed.

EI7SMR operates on RU74, 430.925mhz, input is 438.525mhz (7.6mhz split) and requires a ctcss tone of 103.5Hz.

ZS2X VHF beacon now covering most of South Africa

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The two-element Yagi of the ZS2X beacon on 50,007 MHz FSK, near Port Elizabeth, has been turned north by Tim Joubert, ZS2X, as requested to cover most of South Africa.

This 25 Watt beacon will produce very strong radio bursts on the daylight meteor shower Arietids that is currently active until 2 July 2013, which is the most intense daylight meteor shower of the year.

This VHF beacon can also indicate country-wide Tropo Ducting as well as Tropo Scatter propagation on 50 MHz in the early mornings after sunrise as well as Aircraft Scatter along the flight paths.

It will be the most effective during the summer months when it can give early warnings of the strong but unpredictable Sporadic-E openings that could occur during the mornings, afternoons and/or evenings.

Reception reports of the ZS2X beacon would be appreciated

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RILGES East Sussex Repeater Group

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RILGES (Repeater and Internet Linking Group of East Sussex), is a NEW local Amateur Radio Repeater Group recently formed to independently coordinate the provision, awareness, education, latest information, support and maintenance of our local affiliated Amateur Radio Repeaters, DStar and Internet Linking in East Sussex.

The proposed new GB3EB VHF Repeater in Eastbourne together with the DStar MB6EB and MB7IEB Echolink Gateway are incorporated within the Repeater Group. Other local repeater and link managers are also welcome to become part of RILGES in a bid to strengthen repeater usage.

Find out more about the group - http://www.rilges.org.uk