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The Mighty Crossroads of Goring!
Bob Zapf VE3RWZ, ERA's man in the north!
Bob in the radio vault with the first MBR repeater
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- VE3MBR 2 meter Repeater 147.105 MHz 156.7 Hz tone
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- VE3NEG 70cm Repeater 444.425 MHz 156.7 Hz tone
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- VE3FCK-1 2 meter APRS Digi-peater 144.390 MHz
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- Echolink 43568 discontinued
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- In the spring of 2004 VE3MBR repeater moved from Carlisle to the
Webbtronics Commercial site in Goring. Currently MBR is a Micor 100 watt
repeater, fed into a Sinclair Q 202 duplexer, with 7/8 inch corrugated cable
to a Sinclair 16 element folded dipole array. Bob Zapf of Meaford, provides
the MBR with it's Echolink feed. To the MBR, Collingwood ARC links their
repeater into the system at various times. There will be several major
upgrades to be implemented over the summer of 2005 at MBR. Keep a watch on
the News page for those details when they come available. MBR is a Joint
operation maintained by Jim, Jon, and Rick, Bob Zapf helps also looking
after short notice issues, and has spent a night or two with us burning the
midnight oil when a problem arises.
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- In the fall of 2004, Tom Domonkos VE3LT (COBRA Amateur Radio Club Inc), approached us to use and supply
to the site a digi-peater for the APRS system, this put VE3FCK-1 digi
144.3900 MHz on the air from Goring. After a couple of minor programming
glitches the digi has been on the air since the fall of 2004 an has worked
flawlessly. The configuration is a GE Phoenix, and a Kamtronics KPC 3.
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- Goring system up-grade
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- October 14th, 2006 the ERA crew rolled into the Goring site and did a
complete upgrade of the site. Added is a UHF repeater, a new repeater for
VHF and the installation of a ARCOM 210 site controller. On VHF the repeater
works into two separate 8 element antennas, On UHF the repeater operates
into a 310-C8 half wave spaced at the 300 foot mark on the tower. The lobes
of the antenna are positioned at 260 degrees azimuth and this favors signal
NNW, and SSE directions. A link radio allows Goring to link back into the
main ERA UHF hub, this will normally be left open to the hub system, VHF
will operate local and can be linked into the UHF when required.
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- Antennas at MBR are at 320 feet AGL, and 1700 feet RC-AMSL
The New System Good to Go!
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