Our Echolink node which has been offline for the past week or so due to computer problems is back up and running again since last night. A newer faster PC replaced the old one which had been in place for a number of years. On site to carry out the installation were Neil EI3JE and John EI8JA, thanks to Jim EI8IG who hosts the system for us.

Farmer's Cross Repeaters Update

     

Farmer's Cross analogue voice repeater EI7FXR on 430.900 which covers the Cork city and surrounding areas is back on air since yesterday. We did a work around to the Intermod interference that was causing trouble on the repeater while we were there, it involved removing the repeaters transmit CTCSS tone.  The repeater still needs a 103.5 tone to open it but if you can't hear the repeater on your own radio you will have to remove the receive tone and just set it to normal squelch.

Our digital repeater EI7FXD on 430.250 is also back on air; this has been changed from a DMR only to an MMDVM multimode repeater which is active on DMR, YSF, D-Star plus standalone analogue with a 103.5Hz tone (there is no courtesy tones just a basic repeat). It's all based around a Raspberry PI and sometimes these do lock up so it's on a weekly timer to fully reboot once a week if this happens.

On site yesterday were Neil EI3JE, Jeremy EI5GM and John EI8JA. Thanks to John EI8IR for for his assistance and for providing the broadband link.

If you find any issues let us Know,

Reports can be sent to sirnrepeaters@gmail.com.

EI7MHR Repeater at Mullaghanish

Due to on site engineering works beyond our control our repeater EI7MHR at Mullaghanish will be off air until Tuesday November 12th.

Mount Leinster

 Update: Our services from Mt. Leinster are back up and running, Devil's Bit is also back on air.

Mount Leinster

All our services from Mt. Leinster are off air at the moment, this includes the 70cm voice repeater EI7MLR on 430.950, digital repeater EI7MLD on 430.300 and EI2MLP APRS digipeater.

We will post any updates as they become available.

EI7MLD Mt. Leinster

Our digital repeater EI7MLD located on Mt. Leinster is back online. 

Modes available: DMR, DStar, Fusion and Analog. 

Reports to sirnrepeaters@gmail.com

EI7MHR Mullaghanish

Our UHF repeater EI7MHR located at Mullaghanish will be off air for maintenance for approximately one week.  Updates will be posted on here.

The repeater is now back in service.

EI2HHR Helvick Head 20 years in existence

 

Thursday August 10th recently marked the twentieth anniversary of the installation of the two metre repeater EI2HHR at Helvick Head Co. Waterford. The original installation consisting of a Motorola MC Compact repeater, two Sigma Cat-150 antennas fed with LDF5-50 heliax cable, was built by Neil EI3JE and licenced by East Cork Amateur Radio Group as EI2ECR (East Cork Repeater).  

It was installed on the site at Faha Co. Waterford by members of East Cork and South Eastern Amateur Radio Groups and was the beginning of what is now the Southern Ireland Repeater Network.  

On site for the installation were Jerry EI6BT, Eoin EI7FXB, Neil EI3JE, Jim EI8GS, John EI8JA, Nicky EI3JB and Jim EI8IG. 

The repeater is now owned by the Southern Ireland Repeater Group and licenced as EI2HHR and uses a Motorola MTR2000 repeater into one Sigma Cat-150 antenna.

EI7WCD Waterford City

Our digital repeater EI7WCD (430.275 +9MHz) in Waterford City which had been off air since before Christmas is now back up and running. 

Reports to: sirnrepeaters@gmail.com

EI7MHR Mullinanish

 Our repeater EI7MHR on Mullaghanish, Co. Cork on 430.875 MHz is back on air.

EI7MHR Mullinanish

 Our repeater EI7MHR on Mullaghanish, Co. Cork on 430.875 MHz will be off air for maintenance for approximately one week starting from today. Updates will be posted here and on our Facebook group page.

 Southern Ireland Repeater Group would like to thank the committee and members of South Eastern Amateur Radio Group for their recent  donation. It is very much appreciated and will help towards the maintenance and upkeep of the repeater network. Presentation was made to John McCarthy EI8JA of SIRG by Raymond Cowman EI6HFB Vice-Chairman of SEARG.

Southern Ireland Repeater Group would like to thank it's contributors to date for their great generosity. Your support helps us keep the repeater network on the air for the benefit of all radio amateurs both here in EI and abroad.
Donations and contributions can be made via PayPal from the Contact/Donate link on our blog page; https://sirnrepeaters.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_13.html

Had a report recently that our digital repeater EI7CDD near Clashmore in Co. Waterford was out of action so a site visit was made today to investigate. It only took a reboot to sort it so it's now back online.

 

Also called to the Carrickphierish site in Waterford city and did a firmware upgrade on the EI7WCD digital repeater.

 

We appreciate reports on our repeaters and encourage users to submit a report if they suspect any of our services are down in signal.

 

DMR Access

 DMR access to the analogue repeater network is no longer available. The gateway which hasn't been functioning correctly has been taken offline until the problem can be sorted.

Our 70cms repeater EI7HXR at Harney's Cross Co. Waterford is off air at the moment. We will post any update here and on our Facebook group page.

 Irish Brandmeister server is now back online.

There is currently a power outage at the data centre which houses the Ireland Brandmeister server to which our DMR repeaters are connected. At the moment we are uncertain when it will be back online. Updates will be posted here.

DMR to Analogue Gateway

The DMR to Analogue Gateway on talk group 27240 which provides access to our analogue repeater network for DMR users which had been offline is now back up and running again. 

Reports to sirnrepeaters@gmail.com.

EI7CDD Digital Repeater Update

Our digital repeater EI7CDD which had been off air the past few days for maintenance and upgrading is now back on air. It is now running the current firmware and software versions. On site today were John EI7IG and John EI8JA. Special thanks to John EI7IG for upgrading the network configuration to PPPOE and to Airwave Internet for the broadband connection.

Any reports would be welcome to sirnrepeaters@gmail.com.