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IPK London is a personal site, any software downloaded from here can be used but at your own
risk. I accept no responsibility for any misfortune you may have.
As big a city as London is it’s not massively blessed with radio repeaters, although you can generally hit one no matter where you go. There are many 70Cms repeaters (some for DV and some analogue
voice) also 2M spread in and around the capital.
Repeaters are like a massive amplifier for your radio, you could be 15 miles from a repeater on your handheld talking to someone 25 miles out the opposite way, 40 Mile covered distance on a little 5 watt
radio, come on you cannot argue with that can you. I was once talking from just under the Millennium Bridge near St Paul’s Cathedral in London into the Romford Essex repeater to a man who was in his
room on Canvey Island, I was only using my DMR Retevis RT3 in analogue mode.
On some repeaters they usually have nets during the week (like the Monday Night Net on GB3DA in Danbury Essex from 8pm). Watch out for those, you get a good group of people on there.
I have listed many of the repeaters below, not all I’ll admit but it’s a start.
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Digital Repeaters.
Whilst many love the thought of using the likes of Digital Modes like, Dstar, DMR and C4FM please remember, For Dstar and DMR you do need to register. For C4FM all you need to do is to input your callsign into
your C4FM Radio and you’re on your way, no more hassle there.
I will say this, Registering for a DMR ID is a lot simpler than registering for Dstar, to see how to register for Dstar check out the Dstar page on here and take a look at the HRN video 2 of 3.
The Many people have asked me Do I need to register so I just thought I would add this note so that there is no confusion.
In the pic to the left a Repeater can connect
the two houses and also a lot more further
affield.
Essex Repeater Group
Click on Pic to the left for a bigger copy
of their flyer (PDF Format)
