October 25th, 2024 updates
Carney VE7YXS Fusion Repeater is now on the internet. It has been decided that the default room will be the BC North room. We are experiencing an issue where if the room is not in use, the repeater unlinks and relinks to the room by itself. This repeats until someone starts using the room then it stays connected. We are looking in this. In the mean time feel free to use the repeater, change what room it is attached to, become familiar with its operation.
The links have been reestablished as far as Mcbride. Valemount is still in stand-alone mode
The pdf compiled by Ken has been updated.
Carney RES repeater has been returned to the analog repeater network and the Fusion repeater has been moved to 442.100 Mhz. At this point it is functioning as a stand alone repeater until we can get the networking ports changed around. Possibly one of the hams in town with Fusion capabilities will put the stand along repeater onto the wires X system through their own station.
Ken Wolfe has completed a diagram of the analog Northern Repeater Network that maybe of use for people
General repeater update for the sites east of Prince George. All of the sites are operational and can be used as local repeaters, however they are not linked to the overall system. There are a variety of issues with the linking but the techinical guys are working through the faults.
See this from Graig with a bit more detail.
Here is an update on the sites east of PG.
Yesterday was another 16 hour day trip to Valemount & McBride for VE7AV & VE7EAP. Here is the current status of all our sites east of PG. This may be the way it is until spring. Time will tell.
Valemount: Working in stand alone mode with 100Hz tone required. (that is a change)
McBride: Working in stand alone mode. It’s a long story with several simultaneous troubles compounding the situation. We’ve spent many days and several trips working on it. We have a better understanding of what we hope is the last trouble but it will require a lot of time and unfortunately, we may not get finished this year.
Loos: Working in stand alone mode. There were reports of the APRS not working but the path to the I-gate was temporarily out of service so that should be ok now.
Purden: There is no drop repeater at the Purden site. There are back to back UHF radios to create our link from Prince George to Loos. The power to our equipment was removed in error by Telus and getting it restored has not happened yet. It is impossible to install solar here because of the trees unless we put it at least 50 feet up the Telus tower and that would be another issue!
In short, we are aware of the troubles and are working on them but, don’t hold your breath. I know we all want it working yesterday but it is just a hobby.
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Graig
Northern BC Repeater Summary document. Kudos to Bulkley Valley Amateurs for composing this document. Note it doesn’t show every ham repeater in the North but all the more commonly used ones.
PGARC’s VALEMOUT FREQUENCY WAS CHANGED SEPTEMBER 28, 2022.
THE NEW FREQUENCIES ARE: REPEATER TX 147.360 – REPEATER RX 147.960
This is the same frequency pair PGARC uses for the Burns Lake area
(Boer Mtn) and offers increased frequency separation from the McBride
repeater frequencies.
This new frequency lineup made it possible for two additional bandpass
cavity filters for the McBride repeater to be effective.
The remotely controlled base station at the McBride repeater site,
which forms the link to Valemount, now operates in an environment of
greater frequency separation.
While we are getting our pages back together please refer to Bulkley Valley Repeater page.
https://www.bvars.org/repeaters.html
If you are travelling to the island the following ham has an excellent resource of islands repeaters.