Three New Amateur Radio Beacons in Belgium

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Belgium's national amateur radio society the UBA reports three new beacons were added to the ON0VHF site in JO20SP on 23rd October 2019

The 13 cm beacon has been in operation since mid-September.

23 cm - Frequency: 1296.875 (GPS controlled) 8 W - slot antenna 16 dBi

13 cm - Frequency: +/- 2320.888 (not yet GPS controlled, changes to 2320.875 in December) 1.5 W - slot antenna

6 cm - Frequency: 5760.880 (GPS controlled) 200 mW - slot antenna

3 cm - Frequency: 10368.825 (GPS controlled) 7 W - slot antenna 12 dBi

The beacons were mounted on the same site as the 2m and 70cm beacons of ON0VHF at a height of +/- 30m AGL.

Contributed to this project: ON4IV, ON5TA, ON7RX, ON7UN, ON4BCB and F6DPH.

Reception reports are very welcome!

GB3JV London TV Repeater

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GB3JV London TV Repeater

Justin, G8YTZ is delighted to announce that the from 14:50 on 6th October 2019 the GB3JV Amateur TV repeater is now on the air in beacon mode. The new repeater is located in Petts Wood, Kent, and transmits on 3404MHz.

The Tx antenna is a slotted waveguide design and gives the station and ERP of 150 Watts. Receiver Inputs are available on 1249MHz and the repeater output will shortly be streamed on the BATC Web Site.

To receive the repeater all that’s required is a tuneable DVB-S2 Satellite Receiver, or a BATC Minitiouner, a small dish and a C-Band LNB. Coverage predictions show reception possibilities across the heavily populated area of South-East & East London as well as parts of Essex.

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South Hampshire Repeater Group Launches 70cm ‘Internet Free’ Linking

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South Hampshire Repeater Group Launches 70cm ‘Internet Free’ Linking

The South Hampshire Repeater Group has recently established an on-demand link between the Fusion 70cm repeater GB7MT (Southampton) and the Fusion 70cm repeater GB7PO (Portsmouth) relying solely on RF. Whilst it is often common practice to use the Internet to link repeaters, the keepers of GB7MT and GB7PO decided to adopt an ‘RF only’ policy to linking their repeaters using off-the-peg (well, almost) Ubiquiti 5Ghz equipment.

The 13-mile hop between sites is achieving bandwidth in excess 100Mbps of which the repeaters use approx. 0.05Mbps! The idea was initially inspired by the Local Emergency Planning Officer Tim Pettis 2E0CXQ who, for resilience purposes was keen to establish a communications path between the two cities in the very unlikely event of an existing civil communications infrastructure outage.

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