Eastern to southern Cape link operational

The link from the Eastern and Southern Cape is through to Cape Town again. David, ZR1DJP, stated that he has managed to install the new crystals as received from Dave Perry, ZS1SG, in the link at Riversdale towards Jonaskop, and all is well at the site again. Traffic is once again through to the Mother City.

There have been some changes at the far end in the interim too, where Dave, ZS1SG, has installed two repeaters at one site, operating off one antenna. This was achieved by some clever splitting and combining using cavity filters and receiver splitter amplifiers.

The Cape Town end of the link now runs on 145,775 MHz, and is resident at Kanonkop along with the famous 145,750 MHz general use repeater covering the Peninsula.
Our thanks to Dave, ZR1DJP, Dave, ZS1SG, and the relevant clubs and repeater working groups.

While the Cape Town end is reconnected after a long absence, the Grahamstown to East London link was removed for repair on Monday the 28th Feb, after it was found to have both an intermittent receiver and transmitter fault. Once this is attended to by Chris, ZS2AAW, the whole network will again be back in operation.

Next steps are the addition of a fill-in repeater to cover the town of Knysna, and a long-awaited Kareedouw VHF repeater to complete the coastal coverage from Umtata to Cape Town. The additions are due later this month, or early April.

Courtesy of The South African Radio League

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