ARLA/CLUSTER: Repetidor D-Star marca o inicio do centenário da RSGB

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

D-STAR repeater marks opening of National Radio Centre on the RSGB Centenary Day


The National Radio Centre, based in Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire
is now fully open to the public and providing a showcase for radio
communications technology in the 21st century.

The Centre is very much the focal point for the Radio Society of Great
Britain’s centenary celebrations… and there is no finer time for the
Society to show its commitment to the future of the hobby and the
latest digital technologies by the installation of the new UHF GB7BP
D-STAR repeater donated by Icom UK.

Graham Coomber, G0NBI, General Manager of the Radio Society of Great
Britain said, ‘The National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park was built
to showcase 21st century radio technology. D-STAR, being a relatively
recent innovation in radio communications, is a very fitting addition
and brings with it a new dynamic way of promoting amateur radio to the
general public as well as providing a spectrum efficient service to
local amateur radio operators’.

He added, ‘The GB7BP D-STAR repeater will 24 hour access to this
technology to those amateurs who travel in the area, and will
encourage those who have not already experienced D-STAR to have a
taste of what Digital communication can achieve. Likewise non radio
amateur visitors to the National Radio Centre will have the
opportunity to have worldwide communications via the D-STAR UHF
internet gateway link demonstrated to them and shown the benefits of
long distance communications without ionospheric propagation’.

He went on to say, ‘The GB7BP repeater has been designed as a local
community repeater serving the radio amateur population around Milton
Keynes and Bletchley, as well as providing D-STAR operators worldwide
the opportunity of communicating directly with the prestigious
Bletchley Park site. Its secondary purpose is to increase local hand
held coverage and giving a DX opportunity to those who find installing
HF antennas impossible’.

The D-STAR UHF digital repeater that Icom UK have donated the RSGB
comes with Icom ID-RP2C Controller, Procom Bandpass filter, Procom
duplexer and case.

Ian Lockyer, Marketing Manager of Icom UK said, ‘we are really pleased
to have donated this D-STAR repeater to such a historic and important
venue. We wish the Society the very best wishes on their centenary and
look forward to being a partner with it for the century to come.’