Stoke-on-Trent Repeaters
News
May 2023
The repeater is back on-Air operating from its new site located on Biddulph Moor. Connect to the Brandmeister DMR network.
August 2022
The license arrived 16th of August 2022, time to start building the new site.
September 2021
Application for a site move near Leek North Staffordshire was sent to the RSGB ETCC.
GB7SI will operate on the BrandMeister network
February 2020
Tests using a Hytera RD985S base station on the Phoenix network
April 2019
Tests linking to the Phoenix network
17/03/19
Tests linking to BrandMeister are taking place
21/09/18
Equipment upgrade planned soon, maybe off the air for a few weeks at a time while things are moved around.
27/11/17
Taken off-air due to poor and broken audio.
14/06/2017
A local power surge followed by a 2-hour power cut at 15:15 hours took the repeater off-air. Full service was not restored until 20:10 hours after a burnt-out power supply unit was replaced, restoring Time slot one Talk Group one service.
05/04/2017
Echolink operational connected to TimeSlot 2 uses Talk-Group 9 Local. Please leave a 4-second gap between overs to allow timer resets in the system.
23/03/2017
Echolink interface onto TimeSlot 2 is taking place at the moment and will affect normal service over the next few days on both Time Slots.
22/02/2017
EchoLink connection to GB7SI will be the next project, ID number 43310 has now been registered. Which Time-Slot, Talk-Group has yet to be decided and the purchased of further hardware will delay the launch.
17/02/2017
ALLStar node connection now active and fully operational after a few one way audio issues last week.
Talk-time limit is 3 minutes and leave a 4 second break between overs to allow all the Node connections to reset.
Remember if your QSO is between just local DMR stations on Time-Slot 1, Talk-Group 1, your conversation is also going via the ALLStar network world wide. This would then stop another conversation from taking place via HubNet UK node 41522, so please move any local DMR QSO onto Time-Slot 2, Talk-Group 9, thank you.
