Welcome to Thornton Cleveleys Amateur Radio Society often shortened to TCARS. We meet every Monday evening at 8:00 PM (excluding Bank Holidays) at: Cleveleys Community Centre, FY5 1ER

Our club call signs are G4ATH and G6ATH
The Society was founded in 1969 with the objective of furthering the interests of radio enthusiasts in all aspects of Amateur Radio and directly associated activities.
The Society is affiliated to the RSGB, a "Brickworks Accredited Club" and is non-profit making.

Committee

President -  Ted Avery G3WBB                  

Vice President - Dave Ward G8KBH

Chairman - Ian King G8VTX

Vice Chairman - Alan Ogden G6JZN

Treasurer - Donald Mobbs G4MEE

Secretary - Jen Ward G8YOK

Committee Members - Philip Hopkinson M8UHJ, Les Hopgood G4LJH, John Duxbury ME1JDU, Michael Heaton-Bentley 2E0MKH

GB7FC D-Star Repeater

GB7FC is a D-Star repeater funded & run by TCARS.

The repeater keeper is G0GER (Ray) and is located at Ray's QTH in Cleveleys. 

Input frequency 430.500 MHz

Output frequency 439.500 MHz

The repeater runs 5w and the antenna is a Diamond X50

TX antenna height above ground level: 7 Metres A.S.L.

ERP: 9.9 dBW

GB7FC is linked to the internet and has its own reflector XLX524B courtesy of Alex 2E0DXX

The following repeaters are owned and operated by ‘Fylde Coast Repeater Association’.

GB3FC (Analogue Voice)

Transmitter Frequency 430.850 MHz

Receiver Frequency 438.450 MHz

A CTCSS Tone of 82.5Hz is required to access the repeater, it also transmits an 82.5Hz tone to allow users to use tone squelch.

GB7BF  (Digital Voice)

TX 439.30

RX 430.30

BM DMR COLOUR CODE 5

GB3FT (24cm digital amateur TV)

Input frequency 1249MHz  250 or 500kS DVBS2 or analogue FM

Output frequency 1315MHz 500kS DVBS2 H265

Live feed is here: https://batc.org.uk/live/gb3ft

Thornton Cleveleys Amateur Radio Society runs three different radio nets every week.

We hope you will join us, it's a great way to keep in touch with club members and find out what has been going on.

• Sunday - Top Band net @ 11.00 am on 1.969 MHz

• Thursday - 2 Metre net @ 19.30 on 145.400 MHz

• Tuesday - D-star net @ 19.30 on GB7FC and XLX524B

Thornton Cleveleys Amateur Radio Society meets every Monday evening at 8:00 PM (excluding Bank Holidays)

Meeting Location

Cleveleys Community Centre
Kensington Road
Thornton-Cleveleys
Lancashire
FY5 1ER

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