MB7PI – 2m APRS Digi

MB7PI is one of the groups 2m APRS digipeaters which has iGATE functionality.

Location Barkway Access Method Valid Data
QTH Locator IO92xa CTCSS N/A
Input Frequency 144.800MHz Timeout None
Output Frequency 144.800MHz Reaccess N/A
Mode 1200bps APRS Digi Reaccess Period N/A
Polarisation Vertical Aerial Vertical
Height AGL 52m Direction Omni
Height ASL 156m ERP 25W

http://www.dcc.rsgb.org/ShowNodes.asp?call=MB7PI

Local APRS/DPRS Map:

Below is a map of all APRS and DPRS stations hear in and around Cambridge.

Most, but not all, will be via MB7PI, MB7UM or GB7PI-B.

*Note MB7PI and GB7PI overlay ontop of each other, zoom in to see them individually.

MB7PI iGate Added

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

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…