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Camb-Hams in Harris 2010
After a very successful Dx’peditions in 2008 to the Island of Mull and in 2009 to the Island of Harris the Camb-Hams decided return to Harris for another DX’Pedition for 2010. This was a 2 week dx’pedition and this year we concentrated on the bands which we found worked well from that location in 2009. We ran 2 voice stations on HF from the start, one HF data mode station, 6m and 4m SSB/data (JT6m), 2m and 70cm satellites. There was some portable operation around the islands (possible interest to WAB chasers) but for the first time we had limited SOTA activity. We also operated from the Monach Islands EU-111 for a night over May 5th and 6th. More info on the dx.camb-hams.com page.
CRG Rally 2010
The CRG 2010 Rally was held on April 11th at Foxton Village Hall, in the village of Foxton. The rally was a great success and we would like to thank all our friends, members traders and visitors who helped make it happen!
Talk-in was kindly provided by Cambridgeshire RAYNET.
and “Flossie” was there in the flesh…..
Flossie was also at the CDARC Radio Rally at Wood Green Animal Shelter on Sunday March 7th and attracted quite a crowd – around 700 visitors got to see the Group’s pride and joy.
About the CRG
The Cambridgeshire Repeater Group (CRG) owns and operates amateur radio analogue voice repeaters on 6m (GB3PX), 2m (GB3PI) and 23cm (GB3PS), a D-Star repeater on 70cm (GB7PI) and a high speed packet node on 70cm (GB7PT) from a site at Barkway near Royston plus an analogue voice repeater on 70cm (GB3PY), a 2m APRS digipeater (MB7UM) and an amateur television repeater on 23cm (GB3PV) from a site at Madingley west of Cambridge. Both Barkway and Madingley are former Pye/Philips towers however both are now owned and maintained by Arqiva. These repeaters serve users in the Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, North East Hertfordshire, North West Essex, West Suffolk and South West Norfolk areas.
More information, including the history of the CRG can be found on the About the CRG page.
The Madingley Site
Cambridgeshire Repeater Group AGM
The CRG AGM was on Wednesday 4th of November 2009, at 20:00. It was held in Bottisham Village collage, the same location as previous years AGM and previous CRG rallies.
Repeater Status
Please email technical if you have any reports regarding any repeater below.
| Call sign | Mode | Location | Output | Status |
| GB3PI | 2m Voice | Barkway | 145.750 MHz | Operational |
| GB3PY | 70cm Voice | Madingley | 433.200 MHz | Operational |
| GB3PX | 6m Voice | Barkway | 50.780 MHz | Operational |
| GB3PV | 23cm D/ATV | Madingley | 1316.000 MHz | Operational |
| GB3PS | 23cm Voice | Barkway | 1297.075 MHz | Operational |
| GB7PI | 70cm D-STAR | Barkway | 439.9125 MHz | Operational |
| GB7PT | 70cm Packet | Barkway | 439.7125 MHz | Operational |
| MB7UM | 2m APRS Digi | Madingley | 144.800 MHz | Operational |
| MB7PI | 2m APRS Digi + iGate | Barkway | 144.800 MHz | Operational |
| MB7OV | 2m APRS Digi | Huntingdon | 144.800 MHz | Planned |
CRG Subscriptions
CRG Membership subscriptions run annually from the AGM, see the CRG calendarfor this years date. Membership rates for 2009 are: ordinary membership £10 per annum; family membership £15 per annum. Please help the group by paying your subscription promptly. As always, your subscription will get you into the CRG Rally for free. For those who haven’t yet paid (and those who’d like to join), you will find the CRG membership form on the CRG Membership Page. or pay online by going to the Products Page.
CRG Coming Events
Future
- September 4th – 5th; SSB Field day and 144MHz Trophy (Camb-Hams)
- Weekly UKACs on Tuesday evenings (all bands)
Past
- June 24th – June 27th; Friedrichshafen Ham Radio, Germany. (Camb-Hams)
- May 1st – May 15th 2010; Camb-Hams DX’pedition to Harris, Harris, Scotland (Camb-Hams)
- April 11th; CRG rally – Foxton village hall.
- March 12th – March 14th; Camb-Hams trip to the Dutch National Radio Flea Market (Camb-Hams)
- March 7th; CDARC Radio Rally: CRG Stand and Bring and Buy; Wood Green Animal Shelter.
- March 4th; CUWS lecture – Raynet: The What, Why and How of Amateur Radio Emergency Communications (CUWS)
- Feb 25th; CUWS lecture – HF Direction Finding and Superresolution Techniques (CUWS)
- Feb 4th; CUWS lecture – Sunspots and the Solar Dynamo (CUWS)
- November 4th; CRG AGM, Bottisham Village Collage.
- April 17th – April 25th 2009; Camb-Hams DX’pedition to Harris, Harris, Scotland (Camb-Hams)
- May 28th; Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatoryvisit, Cambridgeshire. (Camb-Hams)
- June 21st; CDARC 90th Birthday Celebration Field Day– GB0CAM in Foxton, Cambridgeshire.
- June 26th – June 28th; Friedrichshafen Ham Radio, Germany. (Camb-Hams)
- July 4th – July 5th; VHF NFD, Cambridgeshire. (Camb-Hams)
Please see the CRG calendar for more dates.
CRG News
MB7PI iGate Added (13th August, 2010)
MB7PI was upgraded on Saturday. The new hardware consists of a KPC3 TNC (thanks Bob G1SAA), an MC Micro radio (thanks Rob M0ZPU) and additional to before an AFL bandpass filter. The new configuration has allowed us to complete the iGate upgrade to MB7PI so it now passes RF traffic directly to the APRS-IS using Peter Loveall’s javAPRSSrvr software.
MB7PI On-Air (12th April, 2010)
On Saturday April 10th The Cambridgeshire Repeater Group (CRG) put their second APRS digipeater onair at Barkway IO92XA. MB7PI, a callsign in keeping with the co-located GB3PI – the UKs first voice repeater – provides much needed coverage to South Cambridgeshire, North Hertfordshire, North West Essex and West Suffolk including the A1(M) and M11. The group’s existing digipeater MB7UM at Madingley NW Cambridge provides good coverage to central and North Cambridgeshire. See the MB7PI page for more info…
GB3YL Repeater Updated (10th Jan, 2010)
GB3YL (RB14 ) is now CTCSS Only Access using 94.8Hz. The repeater has been upgraded to a Motorola Compact Base Station with a G1YFF logic system. Reports Via http://www.gb3yl.co.uk/
GB7NB D-STAR Repeater Operational (14th Sept, 2009)
The Norfolk Broads D-STAR repeater GB7NB went live on Friday 11th September at 15:00 and the first QSO was with M0KXK Ray.
GB7NB has an output frequency of 439.6875 MHz with the input 9 MHz lower at 430.6875 MHz.
The group’s website says that intial reports were good however but there is an issue with drop outs which may be due to mixing products from other transmitters on the site.
Phase 2 of the project will be getting GB7NB connected to the gateway, this is well underway with the PC Server already built and tested and the Icom G2 s/w loaded thanks to Darren G7LWT.
More details on GB7NB here, and the Norfolk Repeater Group here.