Interesting video Lewis, reminds me of my PYE Westminster workings of local GB2SC repeater from the car - each crystal cost £7 for that radio. Repeater DX'ing was fun too - Malvern Hills repeater from Bournemouth was a common one for me.
@raymondmartin6737
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Lewis for a very good run down of the early days of repeaters in the UK. It was similar here in the US, with myself being on 2 meter AM in the 1960's, and being introduced to 2 meter FM repeaters in the early 1970's, whilst in the US Air Force, about 50 miles from here at that time. Repeater development expanded here from then on with more repeaters and now less users. I also have used a repeater to transmit and receive Slow Scan TV. Ray W2CH
@andrewfound3269
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Ringway great video when I lived in Manchester in the late 80s and mid 90s. It was great to use the repeaters. I know live in Dorset and our local repeater DR had been off air since last year. Due to lack of use and very few members.Also our 70cms repeater had issues and I cannot open it with 50 watts due to it’s location miss the chats and have a radio doing nothing
@ianwraith3251
3 жыл бұрын
Nice video - many thanks for that. I didn't know one of my much missed & sadly departed local repeaters GB3US was one of the first on 70cms.
@borisvostoknewbury9124
3 жыл бұрын
GB2AP! Helped build that in the spare bedroom of my friend and colleague G3ZKE, sadly no longer here. I still have the motor for the fake radar antenna. Having built it we realised getting it down the stairs was going to be a big issue! GB2AP was actually talk in for the Ally Pally Rally before the Great Hall fire. The hunched figure is Keith G3MCD, the person to his left "Stan the Van' who inspired me to take the RAE in 1974 at the Grafton Radio Society. We did actually have two repeaters officially sanctioned to defeat the squeakies, RX on the talk in frequency, tx on 438 and 439.825 carrier switched to two Pye U450 link devices. My one and only encounter with 400v at half an amp, still have the burn on my finger. I have somewhere a time-lapse picture of the same squeaky trying in vain to interrupt the talk in from next to the stand, getting increasingly frustrated that his efforts were futile. We used an Icom IC30a 16 channel uhf xtal controlled radio on the stand, though the huge cable runs from the roof rather reduced the signal! Excellent evocation of a bygone age. There was a curious degree of almost romance back in the day, and your narrative encapsulates well the times we all shared...
@thecaravanham
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video Lewis. My local repeater is PI, just south of Cambridge. Awesome to think it was the very first to exist and is still going strong today. It covers a huge area, managed to speak to an M7 from Gravesend in Kent last week, over 80km away!
@M0RSF
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. With the current situation local clubs are running nets on 2M & 70cm Repeaters. Sadly many repeaters sit dormant with very little use most of the time. It must be frustrating for those that put time, effort and money into them. 73 Chris M0RSF
@electrotab
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent video Lewis. Very informative and interesting.
@dgolfer2
3 жыл бұрын
Definitely some very interesting history on the UK use of repeaters. Thanks.
@AdamSWL
3 жыл бұрын
The 70's would have been a great era in radio to have been involved in. Back when wide area wireless communication was not commonplace in society yet. Thanks for a really interesting look back Lewis!
@DanielGlover
2 жыл бұрын
Nice video. At 5:35 Oxford GB3, came up once more at least earlier. I did lessons at a now flattened building, long gone on Harwell / Rutherford site. campus up by Didcot. Was the Didcot (a bit away from Didcot, 3.5 mile or so, in radio clubs there chairmans garden just off site on land edge houses). Never had a Oxford one when I started 1993-4. wonder when that paperwork was. Realise older. You mention dates in the video. Oxford gone by the 90's. 2 videos back, Ridgeway bike ride, At 20 seconds, a selfie with the radio. Didcot in the background. Up where repeater is, do on Low 1/2W
@indridcold8433
3 жыл бұрын
Amateur radio repeaters will continue to rise in number. People are tired of the ridiculous world wide web censorship and editing.
@JeffHochberg
3 жыл бұрын
Glad to hear that repeater use isn’t only declining in the US. It’s been declining consistently for the past few years and I too fear that we either use them or lose them. I think the proliferation of digital MMDVM hotspots is largely to blame but as we become more connected via mobile (5G) , that’s likely to contribute to the decline.
@chrissewell1608
3 жыл бұрын
Reliable Cell phones put a big crunch on ham radio. But I think the market being flooded with affordable ham radios, and the pandemic scare has worked well in people getting nack into ham radio, in 2020. I would like to see some statistics of new ham operators, over the last 10 years.
@DJunclepaul2nd
3 жыл бұрын
How would usage of a repeater be monitored to determine use?
@GateKommand
3 жыл бұрын
and - IF YOU USE THE REPEATER AT LEAST CHUCK A FEW QUID IT'S WAY! Thanks again for a good video mate!!
@robk7783
3 жыл бұрын
Good video, similar memories of repeater history in Vancouver, Canada in the early 1970's. VE7BKU
@paulmorrey733
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Lewis another interesting video Cheers
@RadioTech7388
3 жыл бұрын
A very professional video thank you Lewis from a founder member of GB3SP.
@leehewitt9559
3 жыл бұрын
Good video Lewis!
@chrissewell1608
3 жыл бұрын
It is always good to support your local repeater club(s) that you use, or formally used. It is an easy way to raise funds, to help maintain the equipment.
@hiltopuk
Жыл бұрын
Excellent thanks Lewis
@daveys
3 жыл бұрын
5:31: GB3MT, Winter Hill Lancashire. I bet that was a corking repeater.
@namscout
3 жыл бұрын
Really interesting 👌 May I ask? I'm just discovering the fun and amount of knowledge and learning to be done with regards to amature radio. I don't have my licence yet but have a pair of radios. I've been on the ofcom website but can't find a straight forward answer. I want to teach my son correct radio voice procedure. What frequencies can we use to practice? I'm in the UK (northwest) Your knowledge would be hugely appreciated Thanks
@dasy2k1
3 жыл бұрын
Officially none with standard programmable radios.... But while not technically legal with anything other than radios made specifically for this band you are very unlikely to have any problems on 446.00625 446.01875 And so on adding 12.5k steps to 446.19375
@M7BCN
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Lewis for another excellent video. Repeaters get little use In the north east. I always say that repeaters are like muscles, use them or loss them. We need to get that message out more. As a new ham I was always reluctant to use them, as I felt I was preventing others from doing so.
@mikecrockford6500
3 жыл бұрын
Why do you get 1 thumbs down every post 😂 haters be hatin i guess ! Good work Lewis 👍
@RingwayManchester
3 жыл бұрын
They must be bored mate 😂
@mucy2807
3 жыл бұрын
Great vid 👍
@jordylyons4648
3 жыл бұрын
Check out skelmersdale relay and how it was constructed wrong.
@mrhandofbod
3 жыл бұрын
Glad to report that GB3BC is still alive and well.
@jeffreypetchharrison4363
3 жыл бұрын
android, senhaix n60 google playstore not working what do i do lewis .. jeff.. M0PRF
@stephengunrunnerhanson3550
3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and for the repeaters in the UK we would be lost with out them
@taylor7668US
4 ай бұрын
Can you do a video explaining cross band repeat
@moneymoney3358
3 жыл бұрын
Nice one lewis
@mralanvideo
3 жыл бұрын
Shame it's all so quiet now how long before they get switched off
@DJunclepaul2nd
3 жыл бұрын
But who owns and operates the repeaters? Could they just be shut down?
@Brian3989
3 жыл бұрын
They might be owned and controlled by a small group of people or it can be a club set up just to run the repeater.
@brianjonesg8aso403
2 жыл бұрын
I think it is worth pointing out that RSGB Limited has nothing whatsoever to do with licensing amateur radio or repeaters in any respect. The company is a magazine publisher. Their own description of the purpose of the company in Dunn & Bradstreet business directory is "the sale of radiocommunications" - the name of the monthly magazine subscribers pay for. There are still a significant number of people who mistake RSGB Limited as some kind of radio authority. Very well explained Lewis, sadly some morons about 30 years ago, decided to replace the 1750KHz access tone by a number of sub-audible tones. This rendered the vast majority of equipment useless for repeater use. Compared to the 1980s, repeater traffic is now down to 1-5% of the former level, with hardly anything heard for days when previously you could barely get a word in. A single decision destroyed this area of the hobby, it is unlikely to ever recover.
@minnowpoo
3 жыл бұрын
Lewis did you use to be a football Referee? you look like some one I knew in Liverpool.
@RingwayManchester
3 жыл бұрын
Not me mate
@michaelswann8046
3 жыл бұрын
lewis can you use a repeater if you use pmr 446 only?
@wisteela
3 жыл бұрын
Repeater use is not allowed on PMR446.
@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266
3 жыл бұрын
1kw is permitted though
@wisteela
3 жыл бұрын
@@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266 🤣
@michaelswann8046
3 жыл бұрын
@@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266 naughty naughty lol
@michaelswann8046
3 жыл бұрын
@@wisteela thanks paul
@JeffHochberg
3 жыл бұрын
For us outside of the UK, what is/who are the RSGB? Are they the UK equivalent to the Federal Communications Commission?
@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266
3 жыл бұрын
Some organisation that send you a magazine and a badge ( referring to another of Lewis’s videos ).
@JeffHochberg
3 жыл бұрын
@Simon Pugh ah ok. Thanks for the explanation!
@JeffHochberg
3 жыл бұрын
@@arthurtwoshedsjackson6266 yeah we have those here in the US. Always sticking their noses where they don’t belong
@wisteela
3 жыл бұрын
Very interesting 73 M7TUD
@boweandrew3
3 жыл бұрын
fascinating Ab9ew
@rohnkd4hct260
3 жыл бұрын
very good story
@markg6jvy135
3 жыл бұрын
👍👏👏
@Patrickjdee66
3 жыл бұрын
Cheers pal
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman
Жыл бұрын
Which you would NOT NEED if the EARTH was FLAT...😉
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