Thursday 15 June 2023

New APRS Digipeater and Gateway - on 144.9375 MHz

I now have the Notice of Variation to run an APRS Gateway MB3UNN from my home QTH in North Newbald, East Yorkshire.  This gateway will provide the connectivity for the proposed digipeater that will be co-sited with the GB3NY UHF repeater at High Hunsley - The reason for the oddball frequency is due to both my QTH and the proposed digipeater being close to the restriction of 50 km from TA 012869, Irton in Scarborough, specified in Schedule 2 of the Amateur Radio Licence.

It's currently running receive-only for test purposes, using a Raspberry Pi 3B with an RTL-SDR, piping the RTL_FM audio into Direwolf, it will be upgraded to full operation using a single band 2m radio following further test and evaluation.