A liitle about the repeater

Both repeaters are located HERE, on the roof of Bath University overlooking the historic city of Bath

GB3UB is the 70cm 433mhz voice repeater and operates on 433.100/434.700mhz, ctcss 118.8hz. It uses a converted Storno base station using G8CUL logic running 10w to two Jaybeam folded dipoles. It provides hand-held coverage around the city of Bath, out towards Chippenham, down towards Midsomer Norton and across towards Westbury. It is internet linked via Echolink (node no. 201135 )
MB7UB is the APRS data digipeater.

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16 February 2014

Noise Update

As you may know if you listen regularly there is a pulse noise which appears on the repeater, generally in the mornings. I assumed this was local to UB and was properly a car key fob. However, over the weekend I have been made aware that it is very widespread, affecting at least two other repeaters GB3TD and GB3VS. So the question is, where do we go from here. There have been attempts at DFing it, but given how widespread it is the likely that it has more than one source. As users of UB you can help by listening on the input and making a note of location and strength of the interference. I can pass this on and hopefully enough evidence can be obtained to pass on to Ofcomm.

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