North Fraser ARC bring Brandmeister DMR to Greater Vancouver

North Fraser ARC is pleased to publicly announce our latest repeater which brings Brandmeister DMR to the Lower Mainland.  Brandmeister gives the user more flexibility in choosing from hundreds of talk groups.  This repeater should prove very popular given the proliferation of inexpensive DMR radios in Amateur Radio.

VA7FIZ - 440.13125 +5.0 DMR Brandmeister, Color Code 1, ID 302068, Port Moody, Heritage Mountain.

North Fraser ARC supports advancing technology in Amateur Radio locally by providing a plethora of modes, bands and repeater sites for Hams to try something new while using bandwidth that has been traditionally under used, or, as with 33 cm, not used at all before.

Here is our complete repeater list for now, with more being added soon:

VE7NZ     224.920 -1.6, 114.8/114.8, FM, IRLP 1070, All Star 45052, Coquitlam, Westwood Plt
VA7NFR  440.100 +5.0 P25 NAC, 290, Langely, Aldergrove
VA7FIZ    440.13125 +5.0 DMR Brandmeister, Color Code 1, ID 3021119, Coquitlam, Westwood
VE7PTF   440.425  +5.0 P25 NAC 293, Maple Ridge, Thornhill
VA7NXD  440.4375 +5.0 NXDN RAN 8, Pitt Meadows Airport
VE7WAR 440.459375 +5.0 NXDN RAN 44, North Vancouver, Mt Seymour
VE7VDX   927.6875 -25.0 Mixed Mode, FM 114.8/114.8, P25 NAC 293, Burnaby, Metrotown
VE7NFR   927.9875 -25.0 Mixed Mode, FM 114.8/114.8, P25 NAC 293 Maple Ridge, Thornhill
VE7NZ    1290.5000 -20.0 D-Star, Coquitlam, Westwood Plt
* updated January 8, 2020

VE7NZ will be the All Star backbone for the entire network and linking will use Raspberry Pi interface.
VA7NXD & VE7WAR use very narrow 6.25 khz bandwidth and are located in repeater guard spacing and are intended to demonstrate narrow band digital technology.
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