The Stafford Repeater Group has sucessfully got GB3ZI on the air after many months of waiting for the NoV to come through. Any reports or comments will be welcome, please use the contact link to let us know.

How to use GB3ZI

GB3ZI is a wide spaced repeater. The output is 430.975 and you will need a +7.6 Mhz split to use the repeater. Its recommended that you use a 103.5 Hz (Group G) CT to access the repeater. 1750 Hz toneburst can also be used for a limited period of time, the repeater goes into talkthrough very quickly after sending a toneburst so you only need to send it for half a second. The repeater will latch after about 10 seconds and is indicated by 3 rapid pips, you can reply to a station after the three rapid pips. If nobody replies the repeater sends one pip every second utill it send its callsign in CW and then closes.

It is important to keep transmitting between a toneburst and talking otherwise it will drop out. The timeout is set to 5 mins. Narrow deviation is required otherwise clipping will occur.