History of UK Special Contest Call Signs

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Chris GM3WOJ has posted a short history of UK Special Contest Call signs (SCCs) which have now been in use for 21 years

The holder of a UK Amateur Radio Full Licence, Full (Club) Licence or Full (Reciprocal) Licence may apply for a Special Contest Call sign (“SCC”). This call sign may only be used in amateur radio contests of no more than 48 hours duration.

The call sign will be in the format ‘G’ or ‘M’, followed by a chosen digit and a chosen suffix letter. Examples are G8Z or M7R.

Chris recalls that representations to the Regulator to issue the call signs began about 1990 but calls weren't issued until 1996.

Read GM3WOJ's Post - http://www.qsl.net/gm3woj/uksccs.htm

RSGB Special Contest Call Sign page - http://rsgb.org/main/operating/licensing-novs-visitors/online-nov-application/application-for-a-special-contest-call-sign/

 

New Digital Voice Repeater for Southern Ireland

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Throughout 2017, the Southern Ireland Repeater Group began building their first digital voice repeater which consisted of interfacing an MMDVM board with a Motorola MTR2000 UHF repeater.

After a few months of construction, the project is now completed, installed and has been tested in Waterford City at it's new permanent location at Carronadavderg (301m) near Clashmore in West Waterford. The installation took place on Friday 28th July 2017.

The repeaters callsign is EI7CDD, output power 30w and it is capable of DMR, DStar, Fusion (C4FM) and Analog operation.

Operating frequency is 439.650 MHz with a shift of -9 MHz (DVU52) which is one of the 70cm channels allocated to digital voice in Ireland and the UK.

Information regarding this repeater and the group's analog network - https://sirnrepeaters.blogspot.ie