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Band Radio Operators Inc 1980
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DERWENT
VALLEY REPEATER ASSOCIATION
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Derwent Valley Repeater Association (DVR) is a voluntary community group
that formed in 1993 with the vision of placing a UHF CB repeater in the
Derwent Valley for farmers, emergency services and the local community to
use for communications in the Derwent Valley area free of charge.
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- In
1995 it had raised enough funds through tireless fund raising efforts to
place a CB repeater on Mt Lloyd which is just outside of New Norfolk in the
Derwent Valley West of Hobart.
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- This
repeater on channel six covers a vast area from Hobart to Miena and Maydena.
Anyone with a UHF CB in their vehicles or even homes can communicate free of
charge.
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- The
group have a membership of around 50 members who donate $15 a year to the
group, they devote their time for maintenance and fund raising activities.
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money donated goes towards power, maintenance and insurance costs, and this
in-turn ensures we keep the radio running all year round.
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- Early
in 2004 the DVR membership decided to expand their coverage and started to
investigate locations and equipment required. After a failure at Mt
Lloyd it decided to purchase a spare radio which was purchased from a
communications company in Brisbane.
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They then assisted the
group in gaining a donation from the Brisbane Airport Corporation of a Tait
UHF Repeater base. All that then needed to be done was buy a diplexer and
find some sites.
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DVR approached the Tasmania Fire Service for access to two
sites, the first was Brady's Sugarloaf near Tarraleah and the second was
Herringback near Sandfly just North of Huonville. The green light was given
to go ahead and source the rest of the equipment.
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diplexer was sourced from the old Huon repeater group that used to be on
Herringback and the spare KG107 was placed on Herringback in February 2005.
Coverage from this site is as far as Southport in the south to parts of
Hobart and everywhere in between. There are some black spots in the Channel
area.
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- The
Tait radio that was donated to DVR was placed in-service on Brady's
Sugarloaf at the end of October 2005. The coverage from this site is
excellent and covers from the West of Derwent Bridge the Highland lakes and
Derwent Valley areas.
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- It's
very important that the DVR get support from the community by the way of
donations to keep these radio's on air and maybe even build a network even
larger.
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- Joining
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- The
cost is $15 per year in the form of a membership donation and operates on a
financial yearly payment scheme.
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- An
AGM is held every May/June to elect office bearers of the group and voting
members must have paid their membership to be eligible to vote (per our
constitution). Meetings are usually held at the New Norfolk Library but with
the expansion of the radio network we may use a different location.
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- When
paid up, you will be allocated a call sign. If you have an old call sign the
letters DVR (Derwent Valley Repeater) or HVR (Huon Valley Repeater) are
placed in front of your numbers. This will advise all other users that you
are a financial member.
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- The
DVR ask for membership donations to cover their running cost, e.g., site
fees, power, maintenance and administration costs.
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- To
apply for membership you may go to the Derwent Valley Repeater Association
website at http://www.dvrepeater.org and follow the links to download a
membership form that you can fill out and post to PO Box 159
New Norfolk 7140.
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may also email the Association at support@dvrepeater.org for further
information or if you email the Vice President/ Secretary, Michael at
support@dvrepeater.org and send your phone number you will get a call
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