South Boston repeater is moving to a new site
Spring has sprung across most of Virginia and just like you are at home, we are busy making spring improvements on the largest linked repeater network in Virginia. The South Boston area repeater is moving to a new repeater site that is significantly higher than the previous site (now at 300 ft level). This new site near the town of Halifax will offer significant coverage to most of Halifax county, south into area of North Carolina and also to areas along route 360 and 29 that previously had no coverage at all. Take a look at the proposed (mobile) coverage map and see what you can expect in this area. This move also includes a frequency change to 443.575 MHz and the color code will also be CC 9. A repeater is active from the site now and we request any coverage reports or observations. The old frequency of 443.1125 MHz will be retired soon so you have a little time to handle reprogramming of your gear for this change (and we can update all of the documents on the website as well). The talkgroup lineup will remain the same. Please join us in celebrating this improvement to the system!
After a long pause (this is our hobby, after all) we are pleased to release some new codeplugs for the community this week. These will be non-Moto radio files, which are the most popular currently. Stay tuned for full release notes and files. These should be useful starter codeplugs that contain current DMRVA (and northern VA) repeater systems. Happy Holidays!