GB3MH - A cracking new repeater in Mid Sussex

[wind in the antenna]

I've just checked out this new repeater and it's a really nice signal here

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I'm told it's only 5W too, so that's quite impressive !

[LeakyFeeder]

Just reading about the fun an games the idiots had on the old box a good few years back...

Impressive footprint on just 5w though

[wind in the antenna]

You're not getting confused with the Malvern Hills repeater there by any chance are you ?

[LeakyFeeder]

Errr i just typed in the call sign to read up the specs on it an Google thru up all manner of stuff about the idiots that plagued it....

[Guzzy]

I was over that way (Dorking) today, I'll have to add it to my scan list.

[GW0DIV]

I've never seen a repeater callsign re-issued before!

[g1egz]

I have , I believe that GB3SL, what was the South london Repeater on two, has been issued as gb3sl, a six meter repeater in bonnie Scotland, unless I'm wrong,lol

[StoatTB]

I have , I believe that GB3SL, what was the South london Repeater on two, has been issued as gb3sl, a six meter repeater in bonnie Scotland, unless I'm wrong,lol

It's gone from an over used (abused) repeater to an under used one.

[Ashdown_Ratchet]

It's gone from an over used (abused) repeater to an under used one.

It's no longer South London....it's Silent and Lonely. That's according to another ham I know who got sick of the donkeys on CS and moved to SL for a while....so he's gone from a reasonably busy repeater with more than its fair share of idiots, to a repeater which is totally unused. Apparently he's had 1.5 QSOs on it, the one was a sked with one of his mates and the .5 was with me /M where neither of us could make the other out particularly well.

The coverage on SL should be every bit as good as CS, unfortunately I don't think 6m is particularly suited for city life, so trying to work it /M from the built up areas around Glasgow where I do my daily commute is not easy.

AR

[RD250]

Errr i just typed in the call sign to read up the specs on it an Google thru up all manner of stuff about the idiots that plagued it....

That would be the old Malvern Hills repeater just north of me in Worcestershire. I remember it well from the early 1990s and pretty much every night the same bunch of squeakies would plague it. Eg the laughing policeman song would get played endlessly along with various other 'melodies' by an alledgedly licenced amateur in Kidderminster and he had various squeaky mates and several regular adversaries. Basically the same old pantomime night after night for quite some time. Some of it was quite amusing but it was relentless.

[Guzzy]

Briefly picked up GB3MH on the way into Canterbury today, just going up the Boughton Bypass towards Upper Harbledown. Lost it as I went over the hill, but it sure does get out well with only 5W.

[wind in the antenna]

Yay! Excellent ! That's well outside the plot. The best worked reports for GB3MH so far have been Bournemouth and Eastbourne.

GB3WS is still operational but from what I understand, GB3MH was instigated to give a better pattern to the East and if it achieves a better pattern in the Eastern direction without any compromise from other headings then GB3MH will eventually replace GB3WS.

[mattltm]

I can hear it over on the Isle of Grain.

A bit noisy and gets knocked out by GB3KS but its workable.

[G6JMF]

Many years ago I remember seeing the man at the Leicester radio rally behind the squeaking on GB3CF and other repeaters, who was prosecuted and fined £9000 by the DTI , he subsequently sued a UK radio society for libel and had an even better payout. He seemed shocked and worried that I had managed to identify him but as his face and call sign were on a BBC programme about radio and as I'm good with faces it was easy, the recording is somewhere on a popular video sharing website, search for " BBC Arena tuning in (1994) " Upon contacting him he would send you an inflatable pig as he didn't have any regard for any authority figures. Love them or hate them repeaters served a purpose, whether used properly by mobiles or people with handhelds or misused by jamming they focused attention to one frequency leaving others clear , they were for many, myself included, a source of great entertainment and banter, this was in the London area on GB3LO, GB3WL, GB3SL, GB3NL and GB3EL. Maybe it's a London thing but there were no cliques, everyone would talk to each other ....just finding any analogue repeater these days being used is a challenge...

[DX-Digger]

everyone would talk to each other ....just finding any analogue repeater these days being used is a challenge...

Just go on it and talk in a squeaky voice, as soon as word gets out there will be lots of activity from the baofeng boys.