Repeater Information
CARDS has a number of repeaters in the Canterbury region as set out in the following table:
| 2m |
147.200MHz |
+600kHz |
Eyrewell Fire Tower |
| 70cm |
438.400MHz |
-5MHz |
Marleys Hill Christchurch |
| 6m |
53.850MHz |
-1MHz |
Cass Peak Christchurch (not operational at this time) |
| 10m |
29.630MHz |
-100kHz |
Eyrewell Fire Tower (receive)
Old Railway Station Clock Tower Christchurch (transmit) |
| 2m data |
145.625MHz |
-600kHz |
Old Railway Station Clock Tower Christchurch |
| 70cm |
438.350MHz |
-5MHz |
Old Railway Station Clock Tower Christchurch (voice repeater and 10m Link repeater). |
CARDS first repeater to become operational was the 2m repeater on the Eyrewell Fire Tower which commenced transmission on 30 August 2001. Thanks to Mike ZL3TMB the repeater is also running on the Internet Relay Linking Project ("IRLP"), the first NZ repeater to do so. Its node number is 690 and no tone or code is required to access the repeater. Pictured above left is the repeater installation with the 2m repeater on the left.
Also housed at the Eyrewell site is the receive unit for the 10m repeater.
The Eyrewell site is powered by two solar panels and batteries for each of the repeaters. Below is the back of the solar panels and wiring and a glimpse of the view from the tower looking North.
CARDS also had a 70cm, repeater ("840") which was recently shifted to Marleys Hill in Christchurch for testing with some new equipment made by Tait Electronics a local manufacturer. This testing is now complete, and this repeater can also be accessed using Echolink.
The 10m ("630") repeater became operational from about 1730 hrs on 28 October 2003. The transmit unit of this repeater is located in the clock tower at Science Alive! Moorhouse Avenue Christchurch.
The 10m Tx is running about 30W to a halfwave vertical. The 10m Rx Unit is situated at the Fire Tower in Eyrewell Forest and is linked to the TX unit through CARDS's 70cm ('835") repeater. The link signal
from Eyrewell is CTCSS encoded and passes through 835 to open the gate on
the UHF Rx feeding the 10m Tx. This means that while it is possible to
monitor the 10m repeater on a 70cm handheld, you cannot transmit on 10m
unless the handheld is programmed with the correct CTCSS tone. Anyone with
General class licence privileges is welcome to phone or e-mail Mike Stubberfield or
Mike, ZL3TMB, and we will tell you the tone frequency to use. We suggest
that you program it as a separate entry so you can use 840 without appearing
on 10m when you don't need to.
The 2m data repeater ("6525") is also operational from the clock tower at Science Alive! Moorhouse Avenue Christchurch and also started on 28 October 2003. It is
using a dual band vertical and recently changed frequency from 147.125MHz.
First 23cm Repeater for Canterbury
CARDS has made an application to FMTAG to establish the first 23cm repeater in Canterbury. CARDS is hoping to establish the repeater on the BCL Sugarloaf site which should offer good coverage in the Canterbury area. FMTAG has recommended an output frequency of 1293.000MHz and an input frequency of 1273.000MHz.
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