Henry VK2ZHE writes:

On Saturday the 8th of February 2025, at an intensive working bee at the Middle Brother Repeater site, all the VK2RPM repeaters were relocated from the previous outdoor cabinet to a rack inside the building. The VK2RPM Radnet DMR repeater on 438.525 MHz, the 2 metre 146.7 MHz FM repeater and the VK2RPM-1 APRS Digipeater are now all back in service.

The VK2RPM Echolink node which had been temporarily connected to the VK2RCN 147.0 MHz repeater at Telegraph Point during the outage of the VK2RPM repeaters will now be reconnected to the Middle Brother VK2RPM 146.7 MHz repeater and from this Thursday night the 13th of February 2025, the ORARC Thursday Night and Sunday Morning Nets will be held on the VK2RPM 146.7 MHz repeater.

Than you to the working bee participants Peter Fletcher VK2HPF, Tim Tuck VK2XAX, Lyle Smith VK2SMI, Dennis Meade VK2DAM and Henry Lundell VK2ZHE for doing a sterling job in the relocation of the equipment and recommissioning of the VK2RPM equipment.

The Oxley Region Amateur Radio Club Inc. sincerely apologises for the extended outage of the repeater services after a lightning strike on the 13th of December 2024. Fortunately the VK2RPM equipment was not damaged in the lightning strike which affected the host’s electrical distribution at the site. This outage was the first such outage in 52 years at the site.