WFRG Latest News

April 2008

GB7WF Gateway is now operational and connected to the international

D-Star network. A very big thank you has to go to the UK-IT team for

their help in setting up the gateway systems in the UK.

Also many thanks in particular to Paul G1DVA & Darren G7LWT

for their assistance in getting GB7WF connected.

Please go to the GB7WF page for further information.

March 2008

The WFRG is pleased to announce that GB7WF is now operational from

Bewdley in North Worcestershire. Please note that the current frequencies

are expected to be changed sometime in April. The original frequency

allocation put the input frequency in the Low Power Device section of 70cm

and other groups have reported interference on their repeaters.

GB7WF is currently experiencing intermittent interference on the input

frequency so please bear with us until the new allocation.

Please see the WFRG Repeaters page for further details.

Reception reports welcome.

Many thanks to members of the WFRG who supported this project, ETCC,

John Turner at Icom & Rod Wilkinson at OfCom.

GB7WF is the Icom D-Star system which carries both Digital Voice and Data.

It will be connected to the Icom D-Star gateway system in the near future

so a call locally can be made world wide if the user wishes.

We still urgently require your support to finance this project, as being a new system

ex-pmr equipment which would usually be used for an amateur radio repeater

system is not available and all the equipment has to be purchased from new.

To fund this new project, and as always to maintain our existing repeaters donations

no matter how small would be gratefully received.

Download D-star document in .pdf form

A coverage prediction map can be viewed by clicking here.

November 2007

GB3SV

GB3SV is now running Version 2.0.908 of Echolink.

This version is the latest version of Echolink and has been produced to be Firewall Friendly.

It should allow users with Firewall problems to connect via the Internet as long as they are

also using Version 2.0.908. For further details see the Echolink web site.

If PC users are suffering connection problems via the Internet please refer to the help

files on the Echolink web site. www.echolink.org