[Dstar] New VK3RNP-B repeater in the Geelong area

[Tony Langdon]

At 11:17 PM 1/29/2010, you wrote:
>G'day all on the list,
>
>I've been working on establishing a 70cm D-Star repeater for some 
>months now. My intent is to provide better coverage to the Geelong 
>area, learn more about D-Star repeaters & the D-Star network and to 
>foster more D-Star interest locally.

Well done Nik.  Good to see some new D-STAR systems going up.  Out of 
interest, are you using an Icom stack, or one of the alternative 
setups out there?

>
>Once the construction, tuning and configuring of the hardware has 
>been completed, I would welcome anyone to try it out and assist with 
>any testing.
>
>You will need the following details:
>
>RPT1: VK3RNP-B
>RPT2: VK3RNP-G  (not required initially as establishment of the 
>gateway may be a few months away)

Probably safer to leave RPT2 off, until the gateway is running. :)

>Repeater TX: 438.1750
>Repeater RX: 432.7750
>Offset: -5.4
>
>If everything goes to plan, I hope to have this repeater on-air by 
>next weekend. There will be a period of antenna experimenting, so 
>the coverage may vary at times. Once it's up an running, I will post 
>a further message on this list to advise of its status. My QRZ page 
>and the VK-Logger repeater listing for this will also be updated as 
>required. As noted above, the establishment of the gateway may be a 
>few months away.

I'll give it a whirl, once you're up on the air. :)

73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL
http://vkradio.com