Aire Valley Amateur Radio Repeater Society

The Aire Valley Amateur Radio Repeater Society was formed to promote good operating practice through such repeater or repeaters, Membership is open to licensed radio amateurs ,and listeners, and to those interested in promoting the interests of amateur radio. GB3TP has had two locations - each of the sites being very different and presenting various technical and coverage challenges. The current site is at a Farm above Silsden in the Aire Valley - West Yorkshire - UK. The Aire Valley has long suffered from its location as far as radio amateurs are concerned,being hidden behind a range of hills on all sides and the regional repeater GB3NA did not overcome the hills and valleys left around the area after the 'ice-age'. The areas of Haworth, Bradford and Skiption are both popular tourist and commercial centre offers opportunity to the visiting radio amateur to choose from 3 major routes - none of which offered a continuity of service from a repeater

The local amateur radio club Keighley Amateur Radio Society (KARS) had numerous members whose VHF activity as limited to 'in-town' QSO's as most residential locations are well below the level of the surrounding hills. It was these facts which brought together a number of local amateurs to discuss the practicalities of setting-up a 2-metre voice repeater and the Aire Valley Amateur Radio Repeater Society (GB3AE) was born, later to become GB3TP

In 1998 GB3TP was turned off at it's old site

In late 1998 the approvel was granted for the new site. GB3TP came into full service

In 2002 repair work was done on the mast and the aerial

In 2003 A new repeater and CTSCC was built