ABOUT THE VA3PWR Repeater system
The VA3PWR Repeater System is a Privately Owned and Privately Funded Amateur Repeater System and is open to ALL Licenced Amateur Radio Operators.
There are NO Radio Club Politics or Trillium Grant Funding on the VA3PWR Repeater System.
NO Financial Contributions or Yearly Memberships Fees are accepted from the repeater users.
One of my interests in Amateur Radio is putting Repeaters on the air for myself and other Amateur Radio Clubs in Ontario and maintaining them and listening to others use them and enjoying the hobby...
That's my Enjoyment !!
The VA3PWR 443.275 + repeater moved in October 2011 to a 400 Ft. Commercial Tower Site located just outside of Newmarket, Ontario Canada.
Since then the 6 Meter Repeater on 53.130 - ( 103.5 PL ) was added on January 2012
and is linked to the 443.275 at the same Commercial Tower Site.
On March 18th, 2017 A UHF Repeater was installed on a 300 Ft. Commercial Tower Site in Haliburton, Ontario Canada on 442.000 + ( 162.2 PL ) with the callsign VA3HAL and is linked to the VA3PWR Repeater System 24 / 7 which gives coverage from the Greater Toronto Area to the very bottom end of Algonquin Park using the Highways 48 and 35 and 118.
A 4th Repeater VA3NMK on 444.200 + ( 103.5 PL ) was added to the VA3PWR Repeater System on June 2nd, 2017 which was an analog repeater linked to VA3PWR and VA3HAL. As of February 26th, 2024 the analog repeater has been replaced with a Yaesu Fusion Repeater and is now a Dual Mode Repeater ( Analog and Digital ) with Wires-X.
There are 3 Amateur Radio VOIP systems available on the VA3PWR Repeaters:
IRLP Node 2871 http://www.irlp.net
Echolink Node 583427 http://www.echolink.org
Allstar Node 29341 https://www.allstarlink.org
An Autopatch is also available on the VA3PWR Repeaters as well as anyone can listen
to the repeater system anywhere in the world on your Computer / Tablet / Cell Phone
thru Broadcastify.com on the following link: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/21792
There is a Groups.io page that you can join if you are a local user of any VA3PWR Repeater
System Repeater to keep up to date on what's going on:
https://groups.io/g/VA3PWR-Repeater