Isaacs Ridge repeaters

After onsite working bee's over the last 2 weekends, the club is pleased to announce that the new repeater systems at Isaacs Ridge in Australia are now operational.

VK1RBM is now running a VHF & a UHF repeater system using the new VERTEX repeaters the club purchased earlier in the year.

The VHF repeater is on 146.725 MHZ (-600 KHz offset) and requires a CTCSS sub tone of 91.5 Hz to access.

The UHF repeater is on 439.950 MHz (-5 MHz offset) and is running in Carrier Squelch mode, so no sub-tone is required to access it at present.

Both repeaters are transmitting a CTCSS tone of 91.5 Hz if you wish to avail yourselves of CTCSS squelch on your receivers.

The UHF repeater has access to the IRLP Node 6110 / EchoLink VK1KCM-L services being hosted by Carl VK1KCM, this has been tested and appears to be working well.

The VHF repeater will have IRLP node 6336 on it once the node is re-established, we thank Mike VK1TMS for hosting that node whilst the repeater was on Mt Majura.

The 2 repeaters are presently running 25 watts output as they settle in. They share a dual band antenna located about 1/2 way up the tower.

Our thanks go to WATTS Communications for allowing us access to the site. WATTS now carry a selection of VHF & UHF amateur antenna's and are agents for Icom & Yaesu / Vertex equipment.

We thank the following people for their assistance over the last 2 weeks so the new facility could be up and running for the Christmas Holiday period.

Bruce VK2MIB, Ian VK1FMAC, Ian VK1FOTO, Ian VK1IAN, Gilbert VK1GH, Nick VK1NK, Peter VK1NPW, Wayne VK1VNB, Phil VK1PL.