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We’re happy to report that TeamWave plan to take part in the 145Alive event on the 26th January.
We will be operating from Tim’s M1MIT’s shack at our ‘club’ house (JO02NN) from 12:00 to 15:00. This is located next to Standley Steel on London Road (B1172) in Wymondham. If you’d like more information please ask on our Discord.
Everyone is welcome to pop by and join in (weather permitting).
Please stay tuned for updates. More details on the 145 Alive Facebook page.
We would like to wish all our friends a Happy New Year!!
Team Wave endeavour to be more active in 2025.
We’d also like to share that our website is also accessible over IPv6: check
Tis the season to be jolly, so what better way to spread the festive cheer than a good old pub repeater crawl!?
The idea is to have a few drinks, visit as many local repeaters as the group can reasonably reach, make some noise on the air, and generally have a bit of a laugh.
As GB3TX is currently down for maintenance, we’ll initially be meeting up on GB3NB at 20:00 on Saturday 21st December 2024 and working our way around the list below, ending up back on GB3NB once we’ve been “round the houses”.
Order (subject to change):
Looking forward to meeting up with you all, and please let everyone know by sharing this link. Hope you can join us!
Today, Tim and removed the repeater hardware and installed a temporary repeater on UHF. This means at this time GB3TX UHF is on the air (430.8125) CTCSS 94.8Hz. This repeater supports NFM, D-Star and Fusion (local only). Hopefully we can get the network working and use the digital modes over the internet.
The other equipment is now home on the bench. I’m integrating a new controller and will perform extensive bench tests before returning to site.
Signal reports for the UHF repeater welcome. It’s running the same power as the original hardware so the signal should be around the same.
Repeater details:
TOT: 4m
HOG: 20m (Please let the repeater transmitter drop at least once every 20 minutes).
Keychunk: 3 seconds
Pip keychunk: 2 seconds
CW: DE GB3TX is sent on first key up.
Here are the slides from the Team Wave presentation we gave at Norfolk Amateur Radio Club‘s Radio Active event.
Huge thanks to David and Tammy for all the effort that went into hosting the event!
The future is fun! As part of our linking project at Wymondham, we plan to grow into the Norwich too. These repeaters will be linked to GB3TX and consist of UHF base stations. See further down for locations and planned frequencies.
Why?
You will often hear the “we have enough repeaters” comment. While that is true, we plan on providing linking on top of the traditional repeater network. Our aim is to cover as much of Norfolk as possible, creating a local linked network. This brings local users together preventing silofication.
External linking
As always, we allow external linking. However the predominant use is for local repeaters in Norfolk. Repeaters will disconnect idle links and return to their ‘home’ connection.
Donations
We don’t often ask for money, most of our projects have been self funded. However in this case, things are starting to get expensive. Any donations are gratefully received. Please contact Jim M0ZAH via email (qrz.com).
Location, Callsign, O/P Frequency, I/P Frequency, Tone
Thorpe St Andrew MX0WVV 430.900 438.500 94.8
Horsham St Faith MX0WVV 430.925 438.525 94.8
After a lot of work, GB3VW and GB3NZ have been merged into a new multi-port repeater: GB3TX.
New cavity filters have been constructed (from old beer barrels):
10m and 6m ports will be coming online soon. All the details are on the GB3TX page.
Andy 2E0DIQ is doing his usual fine job of drumming up activity in the area with another event aimed at getting stations of all levels out portable and having fun with radio.
Details as follows:
Easter Saturday 30th March 1200-1400hrs 2m FM Low Power challenge
To operate on no more power than Foundation licence allows (10w currently, 25w when Ofcom allows, should be by Easter)
To set up /P in a place of your choice, to run an antenna of your choice, at a height of your choice. You cannot operate from your home QTH.
The aim, to exchange callsign, signal report, and WAB square with as many others as possible in a 2hr timeframe.
Walkie talkie challenge:
As above, but power not exceeding 5w (ie no plugging radio into an amp). Walkie talkie to walkie talkie contacts – give it try?
The point of the exercise is to create a level playing field for all operators, of all licence levels and to have fun testing and trying out radios and antennas in the field.
Tis the season to be jolly, so what better way to spread the festive cheer than a good old pub repeater crawl!?
The idea is to have a few drinks, visit as many local repeaters as the group can reasonably reach, make some noise on the air, and generally have a bit of a laugh.
We’ll initially be meeting up on GB3NZ at 20:00 on Saturday 23rd December 2023 and working our way around the list below, ending up back on the Team Wave “home” repeater of GB3VW.
Order (subject to change):
We could also link the digital repeaters together via the Team Wave MEGAREPEATER, so people can come in from whatever box works for them. Looking forward to meeting up with you all, and please let everyone know by sharing this link. Hope you can join us!
Marrold (2E0SIP) has provided a beautifully written article regarding the up and coming national packet project.
You can see the article here.