improved coverage in Scotland (22 July 2008)
A new repeater has obtained approval to provide 2 Metre service for Stirling and the upper Forth valley in Scotland.
GB3FE will operate on RV53 from a site near Stirling, a town that has not had good 2 metre repeater coverage before.
An application has just been submitted for GB3LA to provide 2 metre coverage on roads such as the A76 and A74(M) which have previously been radio black areas and to provide a means for amateurs to make contact between west central Scotland and the Cumbria Coast and Dumfries.

Lottery funded D-Star (20 July 2008)
The Worthing and District Amateur Radio Club has been awarded over 9000GBP in lottery funding towards new radio equipment which will serve a large area of Sussex.
The club, which has more than 100 members, were successful in their application for lottery funding from "Awards For All" and have been awarded 9,019GBP for their project to install VHF and UHF DStar repeaters in Worthing.
The repeaters allow digital communication both locally and worldwide using radio and internet technology, and will be situated in the Worthing Borough Council buildings serving an extensive area along the Sussex Coast.

GB7CD (20 July 2008)
As of Sunday 20 July GB7CD became operational from its site in Cardiff Bay.
Though some teathing problems were encountered with mounting the antenna, it is operating at temporarily half height for the time being.
Reports are welcome from this the first ever Dstar node in Wales.

Leicestershire Repeaters (16 July 2008)
Two Leicestershire Repeater Group units have returned to full service. After a period at a lower power level, GB3UM on 6 Metres has returned to full power.
23cm TV repeater GB3GV has returned to full service after repair of both the receiver and transmitter aerials.
There is a problem with radar interference that has only partially been solved by moving the receive aerial around the mast to provide some shielding.
Reports on both GV and UM will be welcomed via the LRG website, www.leicestershirerepeatergroup.org.uk/

GB3UK (3 July 2008)
Please note that the CTCSS frequency for the Gloucester 70cm repeater GB3UK has changed from J to G (103.5Hz)
This requirement has been made in an attempt to reduce adjacent channel problems in part of the coverage area.