WSPR Beacon En Route to Antarctic

Hardware for the planned WSPR amateur radio beacons are now on their way to the Neumayer III base in Antarctica  

This is a joint project of the Technical University of Munich, University of Bremen and the DARC e.V.

The installation consists of a beacon transmitter for the 160m to 6m bands with a power output of 5 watts and a WSPR multi-band receiver based on a Red Pitaya, which simultaneously monitors all bands from 160m to 15m and can deliver up to 700 WSPR receive reports to the web every hour.

The commissioning of the system at the German research station "Neumayer III" is planned for January 2018.

Bath Repeaters Lose Site

The British Amateur Television Club ATV repeater GB3UT is being removed from its site at the University of Bath, along with FM repeater GB3UB and APRS digipeater MB7UB.

GB3UT, located in a small building on top of an accommodation block at the University of Bath, was one of the first amateur television repeaters in the UK. It can receive both Analogue and Digital TV transmissions.

Further news is expected in relation to the repeaters relocation

The repeater is streamed onto the BATC Internet streamer and can be viewed at - http://batc.tv/ch_live.php?ch=2

GB3UT - http://gb3ut.co.uk/

BATC - https://twitter.com/BATCOnline

GB3LEX 10GHz Beacon Reactivated

The GB3LEX 10GHz beacon situated in Leicestershire was returned to service on 15 October 2017.

It is running at its licensed power using a new PA that became available thanks to the late G4HUP.

Reports would be appreciated via leicestershirerepeatergroup.org.uk