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Ruardean Hill Radio Club
Repeater Project
We are now much closer to completing the repeater project, mains supply, aerials and earth/grounding points are in place and a secure space has been prepared for the equipment.
Hopefully, the equipment will arrive for installation during September 2025. Once this is in place and connected up, we can then look at testing and checking into a dummy load, setting up the cavity filters (which have been tested offline to ensure they will cover the 2M band repeater frequency allocation).
More details to follow, but if everything goes as we hope, much more of the Forest of Dean and surrounding areas will be covered from this repeater location.
Some club members are contributing £2 a month to ‘the pot’ to cover the repeater set-up and eventually, running costs. Currently this is by a simple standing order paid automatically into a bank account each month, at a time to suit you, additional contributors are welcome. Once the repeater has been operational for a month or two we will have a good idea of the cost, but hopefully £2 per member, each month should cover it.
We are open to other proposals from any club member regarding methods of regular funding.
Repeater Project
We are now much closer to completing the repeater project, mains supply, aerials and earth/grounding points are in place and a secure space has been prepared for the equipment.
Hopefully, the equipment will arrive for installation during September 2025. Once this is in place and connected up, we can then look at testing and checking into a dummy load, setting up the cavity filters (which have been tested offline to ensure they will cover the 2M band repeater frequency allocation).
More details to follow, but if everything goes as we hope, much more of the Forest of Dean and surrounding areas will be covered from this repeater location.
Some club members are contributing £2 a month to ‘the pot’ to cover the repeater set-up and eventually, running costs. Currently this is by a simple standing order paid automatically into a bank account each month, at a time to suit you, additional contributors are welcome. Once the repeater has been operational for a month or two we will have a good idea of the cost, but hopefully £2 per member, each month should cover it.
We are open to other proposals from any club member regarding methods of regular funding.
