MB7TW (2m SSTV Repeater)
Wythall Radio Club is pleased to sponsor MB7TW, a 2 meter SSTV repeater for Wythall, South Birmingham, and surrounding areas.
MB7TW is a FM simplex store-and-forward repeater. After uploading a frame to the repeater, it will retransmit it on the same frequency.
Input and Output Frequency: 144.500 MHz.
Power: 5 watts to a collinear at approx 30 feet.
Mode: FM
Access: 1750hz tone for 1 second. Access will be confirmed by the repeater callsign sent in high-speed Morse code. Transmission of your frame must start within 5 seconds. Note – If no reply, repeater may be receiving a frame from another user.
Transmission of frame: This will commence shortly after your frame is received by the repeater.
Location: Wythall House, Silver Street, Wythall B47 6LZ
Latitude: 52.384092 (52°32’03″N) Longitude: -1.888403 (01°53’18″W).
- Installed and managed by Neil G1TZC and Derek G1INC, members of Wythall Radio Club, and housed at the Club’s Headquarters in the cellar shack at Wythall House in Silver Street, Wythall.
- The system is computer controlled using a 2 meter FM mobile radio kindly donated by John G3OIC.
- The repeater feeds a commercial collinear installed on the chimney at Wythall House above the 70cm repeater array.
- Operation commenced March 2025. At that date, this was only the second operational SSTV VHF repeater in the UK, the other being the Southend, Essex, based Martello Tower Group MB7TV also on 144.500MHz.
- We realise that many of you may wish to help out with our costs. Any donations will go exclusively to pay our bills & keep the repeater fully functional. If you wish to contribute, please make your donation by Bank Transfer to Wythall Radio Club (Sort Code 60-19-14, account number 01517120) with a note saying “For MB7TW from ‘your callsign’ (G9XXX)”. Even just £1 will help!
