Upper Hutt Amateur Radio Club

Our Repeaters

Our repeater hut's on Mount Climie (photographed above in 6 February 2025) is owned, operated and maintained with a number of repeaters, which are situated on Mt Climie Track in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. This site is located 860 metres (2821 feet) above sea level.

Of these, our 730 FM (+ 600 kHz offset) repeater also has an IRLP Node #6713 on it, providing excellent FM voice coverage throughout the lower North Island. Please note that 730's IRLP node number has changed (formerly 6931). 730 is being worked by stations in Blenheim, Nelson, Masterton, Levin, Palmerston North and the Taranaki. A few times in the past, propagation conditions have been such that Australia has worked through 730 along with regular Christchurch and Auckland contacts being reported.

We operate two updated D-Star repeaters using the latest ICOM Repeater hardware (third generation), '5425' and '860' which have proved to provide excellent coverage throughout the valley. Find out which repeaters cover your area using our coverage maps.

Repeaters

Name	TX MHz	Split	Repeater Hardware	Antenna	Power	Mode(s)
395 6m	53.950 MHz	-1 MHz [1]	GE Mastr II	½ wave folded dipole	70W	FM Voice only
730 2m	147.300 MHz	+600 kHz	Tait T-800 Series II	2 x Dipoles Omni 3 dBd	50W	FM Voice only
D-Star 5425 2m	145.425 MHz	-600 kHz [2]	ICOM ID-RP2010V	SM-4 dipoles Omni-pattern	25W	DV/FM & DD
D-Star 860 70cm	438.600 MHz	-7 MHz [2]	ICOM ID-RP4010V	SM-4 dipoles Omni-pattern	25W	DV/FM & DD
1292 23cm	1292 MHz	-20 MHz	Tait IF + Minikits EME72B RPT	Vertical 6 dBd Coaxial Collinear	12W	FM voice only

[1] The 395 (6m) repeater has a 151.4 Hz CTCSS tone on transmit. If you enable this on your transceiver then you will not hear the repeater beaconing.

[2] The D-Star repeaters have a 173.8 Hz CTCSS tone on receive and transmit. You must enable this on your transceiver so that you can use FM mode on the D-Star repeaters. This also allows you to monitor the D-Star repeaters on an analogue only transceiver without having to listen to the digital voice (DV) signal.

As you are aware the clubs’ two ICOM D-Star repeaters can do FM. When programming up your ICOM software for FM on the D-Star repeaters - a line for 860 and 5425 should look similar to this, for the Tones to work:

ICOM Programming software