Southern Ireland Repeater Group

Starting in early March 2017,  the Southern Ireland Repeater Group have been experimenting with the MMDVM and have interfaced it with a UHF MTR2000.
 
After several months of configuration, testing and sourcing equipment, the group have obtained a licence and a repeater location and plan to put their project into service from a hilltop in West Waterford, providing coverage from Cork City to Waterford City.
 
Call Sign will be EI7CDD, with operating modes DMR, DStar, Fusion and Analog modes on 439.650 MHz with a shift of -9 MHz (DVU52) which is one of the newly allocated 70cm channels for digital voice in Ireland and the UK.
 
Digital modes will be given priority on the new repeater.
 
More infomation - sirnrepeaters.blogspot.ie

New South African HF Beacons

The South African Radio League have announced three new HF beacons in the country

Bradley Glen, ZS5BG, started to beacon regularly on 250 mW using an Off-Centre Fed Dipole and he is getting many spots on 40 metres as well as 20 and 10 metres. 

The Jeugland Radio Club, ZR6JRC, beacon also became live pushing 250 mW into a 40 metres inverted Vee and it has already reached as far as Cape Town and Durban. 

A third beacon, built with donated kit by Nic van Duffelen, ZR6AEZ, and it is currently active using the callsign ZS6ZU on 5 MHz using a centre fed folded dipole.

SARL News - http://www.sarl.org.za/public/_news/read_arch.asp?file=../../bulletins/sarlnews%2020170429.txt

Hungarian 5MHz Beacon HG7BHB Closed Down

The Hungarian 60m CW Beacon HG7BHB ( ITU Region 1), which could be found on 5352.5 kHz, has now ceased operation.

Established in 2015 by MRASZ, the Hungarian national amateur radio society, the beacon went out of order on 20th February 2017 and following a substantial increase in activity near its frequency plus the fact that an alternative frequency was not available, the decision was taken to switch off the HG7BHB beacon.