Unfortunately, between 27th December 2019 and 28th December 2019 GB7MB will be going off-air and closing down because of site loss.
If anyone is able to offer a practical working site to relicense and host GB7MB – a UHF MotoTRBO 25w repeater, please get in touch with anyone here at https://mbars.co.uk
Many Thanks to everyone who supported GB7MB and kept it in operation.
This Mbars website should continue however.
-Hax-
Category: Amateur radio news
General Dynamics upgrading Navy shipboard radio with long-range HF automatic link establishment (ALE)
I thought this was reasonably interesting.
http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2016/05/hf-radio-ale.html
–Hax–
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GB7UZ (Lancaster) operational, and Linked to GB7MB on TG9 (TAC9)
To aid coverage of our existing GB7MB repeater around the Bay area, another DMR MotoTrbo repeater was set up in Lancaster, the date of NoV Issue was on 16th Mar 2016, and it seems to help in some places wher MB was struggling, due to local terrain and limitations we have for sites.
GB7UZ is, Like GB7MB, connected to the Phoenix UK DMR c-bridge, and ‘Talkgroup 9, slot 2’ on both repeaters is linked.. how it works is very simple, and you dont need to do anything at all, You can have a QSO with one station on MB and the other person on UZ. There are further additions planned for expansion to the system, in order to give Total Area Coverage.. maybe on other bands and modes, as the spirit of Amateur radio is experimentation, and so watch this space.
-Hax-
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MotoTRBO 2.4a updates
A few nice additions, probably of interest to most Amateurs is the Text to speech and the RSSI tweaks. The Text to speech will be a great leap forwards in accessibility for blind and partially sighted users.
For more info, have a look at twowaydigitalradio.com’s very nice slideshare..
here below is the updated RSSI calibration slide.
Happy bug hunting…
–Hax–
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GB7MB at Narsa – Blackpool Rally
We will be attending (have a stand) at the Blackpool Rally – where abouts we don’t know yet.
When we do know, we will update the site here.
