Repeater News – GB3SM & GB3SX

Aerial Work at The Staffordshire Moorlands Repeater Site.

In making the most of this weekends dry weather, the annual pre-winter engineering examination of the Staffordshire Moorlands aerial
installation for the GB3SM and GB3SX repeaters has been completed.
With the repeater site located at 1140 feet above sea level, it’s not the type of engineering work easily carried out in the middle of winter
with gale force winds and four feet of snow on the ground.
My thanks go to Paul 2E1EUB and Phil G4SCY for all the ladder work involved, these days I prefer (whenever possible) to keep my feet firmly on the ground.

Further to my message NUMBER 1893: >>> I also intend to design and build a suitable interface to enable full Remote Control of the repeaters output power to hopefully make testing of the current problem and situation a little easier. Once the interface (yet to be designed, built and installed) is on site, the repeaters transmitter output power will be reduced as required <<<.

The news is I’ve now completed the design work involved plus fully built and bench tested the said mentioned interface and I’m currently
attempting to set aside a suitable day to install the interface on site.
In the meantime ferrite beads etc have been fitted where appropriate to the CCTV system and as I type (I hope I don’t speak to soon) the
background noise is greatly reduced.

73,
Geoff, G8DZJ.