New 70cm beacon on the air

| August 14, 2015

The Leicestershire Repeater Group is pleased to announce that the new UHF beacon, GB3LEU, became operational on Sunday, 9 August at 1225UTC.

It is near Markfield, Leicestershire, IO92IQ and transmits on 432.490MHz.

It identifies in Morse as well as JT65.

Reports and comments are very welcome to the Beacon Keeper, Geoff, G3TQF, via www.leicestershirerepeatergroup.org.uk.

The Group is indebted to the RSGB Emerging Technology Coordinating Committee for licensing and the Propagation Studies Committee for supply of the beacon synthesiser and PIC identifier PCB.

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