Our repeaters on Mt. Leinster are back on air today 26/11/2019. They had been off air since Saturday due to a power problem.

Reports to sirnrepeaters@gmail.com appreciated.

EI7MLD Digital Repeater Back on Air

EI7MLD digital repeater is back up and running. Site visit made yesterday by John EI7IG, Eoin EI5HBB and John EI8JA. Broadband dish was aligned (John EI8JA) Network configuration set up (John EI7IG) and thanks to Eoin who had his first visit to Mt. Leinster and got the job of terminating both ends of the CAT 5 cable with RJ45 connectors, It was a great help to have an extra pair of hands on site.

Mt. Leinster Equipment Move

Site visit to Mt. Leinster today to relocate the repeater equipment to the new building. The antennas which consist of two UHF four stack dipole arrays and two VHF folded dipoles and a broadband dish for the digital repeater also had to be relocated as these were mounted on the old building which is due to be demolished soon. We were given a space on the small tower next to the new building and a lot of time was spent running the four feeders (two LDF550 runs for UHF and two LDF450 runs for VHF and a CAT 5 for broadband) and installing the antennas. On site were Neil EI3JE, John EI8JA, Billy EI7FJ and John EI2FG.

Equipment rack in it's new location

Antennas on the tower

Antennas side view

EI7HXR Repeater Harney's Cross

Repeater Installation

Antenna

The EI7HXR 70cm repeater on 430.850 at Harney's Cross Co. Waterford has been returned to service following a change of location. It's still located in the Harney's Cross area but on a different mast. 

Coverage Prediction

The coverage should be the same if not better in most areas except Easterly towards Waterford city as the Knockanaffrin Ridge in the Comeraghs is now in the path in that direction. 

 We would appreciate signal reports which can be emailed to: sirnrepeaters@gmail.com

EI7MLR Mt. Leinster

Four Stack antenna in place

During the last few weeks users may have experienced crackling whilst using the Mt. Leinster 70cm repeater on 430.950 MHz. We suspect this was caused by an antenna problem so last Saturday (4/5/19) we visited the site and changed the antenna from a collinear to a four stack dipole array. The weather conditions on the day turned out to be ideal for the job which was completed in a short time and seems to have sorted the problem. 

Reports to: sirnrepeaters@gmail.com

EI7WCD Digital Repeater

The EI7WCD digital repeater is operational again from Waterford City. It is currently running DMR & analog modes only.

Reports to sirnrepeaters@gmail.com

MMDVM repeater on test from Mt. Leinster

A new MMDVM digital repeater is now on test from Mt. Leinster in Co. Carlow.
Callsign is EI7MLD,
Frequency 430.300, Shift +9MHz (DVU-R24),
DMR colour code 1.
Output power is 30 watts into a CATC440 antenna.
It is currently running DMR, Fusion, DStar and Analog modes.
(To use analog mode set TX and RX tone to 103.5Hz)

Enquiries can be emailed to: sirnrepeaters@gmail.com

Users of our network may currently experience some crackling on the audio when using certain repeaters; We suspect this may be caused by a problem with the antenna at Mt. Leinster and we hope to rectify it as soon as the weather improves.

EI7HXR Repeater Harney's Cross

The 70cm repeater EI7HXR on 430.850 at Harney's Cross Co. Waterford is currently off air. It will be returned to service in the coming months.  Updates will be posted on here.