PORT ELIZABETH AMATEUR RADIO SOCIETY
LADY'S SLIPPER REPEATER
Located on Vanstadensberg, to the West of Port Elizabeth. This site forms the hub of the local repeater network, and includes the ZS0NTP BBS computer, HF station, VHF and UHF repeater and link, and VHF and UHF packet access ports. Site elevation is 607m.
SITE PHOTOS
Inside the repeater enclosure.
The ZS0NTP BBS on the shelf,
with the KAM and KPC9612 units underneath.
The Motorola HF set in the front
left corner facing away from the camera.
The battery charger and batteries
on the floor to the left rear.
The VHF repeater, cavity filter, UHF link on the top right.
The VHF and UHF Packet ports
bottom right.
Aluminium pass-reject filter
used for the VHF packet port at the top middle.
Further filters are not easily
visible bottom right.
The tower:
VHF RX colinear at top
UHF Link colinear to the left
UHF 9600bd access folded dipole
6m end-fed (lying skew thanks
to the PE wind...)
VHF 144.625 packet access port
folded dipole (at the back)
UHF packet backbone 8el yagi
to Grahamstown
VHF repeater TX folded dipole
The HF 40/80m dual inverted
vee is also in there somewhere...
The view down South from Lady's Slipper - looking towards Van Stadens River Mouth.