GB3SO

GB3SO is located on a large PMR site in Boston, Lincolnshire, and operates on RB0 (Input 434.6 MHz output 433.0 MHz.

The present equipment consists of a Pye U496 link transmitter/receiver fitted with GB3US MK I control logic built by G4SJV..

The aerial system currently consists of a commercial J-Beam 7536 co-linear on transmit  (giving approx. 18 watts erp) with a commercial J-Beam 7536 co-linear on receive.

The feeder in use on both transmit and receive is RG8U. Due to the vertical separation of the aerials, only one cavity filter is required in the receive feeder.

The Repeater can be accessed by a 1750 tone or a CTCSS tone of 71.9. (Group B) The talkthrough period is 2 minutes.

GB3SO's aerials are located somewhere amongst this lot!
This is the view  looking south over Boston from the site of GB3SO's aerials.  "Boston Stump" is visible to the right hand side on the horizon. Note the patterning caused by interference to the digital camera from the enormous amount of RF present on the site!