The Repeater has been operational since 1976 from Cossham Hospital, which is north east of the city. However, the repeater is soon to move site. It will be located at the Avon Fire & Rescue centre, Lansdown.

The coverage of the repeater once it becomes operational at the new site is expected to cover West along the M4 motorway towards the outskirts of Cardiff, to Swindon at Junction 16 of the M4 going East. The outskirts of Gloucester to the North, down to Weston-Super-Mare of the M5 are also expected to be well covered. However, we have paid extra attention to maintaining good coverage for hand-portable & mobile users in the built-up areas of Bristol.

It is expected that from the new site other towns will now be well covered. These include Chippenham, Calne, Melksham, Trowbridge, Tetbury, Malmesbury and Cirencester.

When the repeater is moved only then will we have a better picture of real coverage, computer predictions only take us so far. We hope to bring more detail to this section when we can.

The Repeater is on channel RU68 which is one of the newly allocated "Wide Split" frequencies.
Please remember that we are now using a +7.6MHz shift rather than the old +1.6MHz
GB3BS supports both CTCSS 118.8Hz (Tone J) and 1750Hz tone burst access.