Anzio Catterick repeater tested in situ

The Anzio Catterick repeater made it on air in what will be its permanent home, the radio hardware currently only has an antenna meant for indoor use on it but when it went up I was hearing station adverts from Easingwold, Bradford and Huddersfield, along with some activity in the public channel for the first time since my brief chat with Andy M1SDE (who has also set up a repeater as I discovered on an Amateur radio club night out on the 20th August but at his home QTH which is in a bit of an awkward location so I never heard an advert from it via the Anzio Catterick repeater when I put this up).

The repeater was removed from location after about an hour because I was not convinced the way I had mounted it was going to be safe so I am going to work on this and get it back up to test overnight and see what happens, also a wander arouund town once it is up to see where I can get into it, granted we're getting to that time of year where the weather is starting to get a bit rubbish I think it's worth a test, I will repeat the test when I swap the antenna over when I can get hold of one.

While it was and still is my intention to establish a local mesh in the area if I can connect to other neighbouring meshes then that is certainly a good thing because the wider the coverage of MeshCore as a whole the better it is especially if disaster strikes such as a nationwide power cut because these devices run of batteries with charging via solar panels and powerbanks, I have been informed that there is work on a link between West Yorkshire and Manchester and I am aware that there is a repeater on Winter Hill where a broadcast transmitter is also located, but for obvious reasons (Arqiva being a greedy bunch and wanting £1000s a day in rent per transmitter as well as the high output of the broadcast transmitters) a MeshCore repeater wouldn't be on that mast unless it had some seriously good filtering which is a complicated subject delving into RF engineering, but it would be great to chat to people over in Manchester and possibly over to Cheshire and Merseyside, maybe even the Fylde Coast, from right here in sunny (or not so sunny) Yorkshire, worth thinking about that.