Location of  Beacons  Repeaters and APRS digipeaters

CYPRUS REPEATERS

All repeaters need PL tone in order to be accessed.

R2 145.650  88.5 Hz also has 88.5 Hz on output 5B4CY      Vavatsinia (nr Larnaka)                   ***
R4 145.700  88.5 Hz                                                       Lemesos                                       **
R5 145.725  88.5 Hz also has 88.5 Hz on output 5B4CY      Troodos Scout Camp                        *
R6 145.750  88.5 Hz also has 88.5 Hz on output                 Tremithousa - near Paphos 297m ASL****

R5 is linked to R6 via a site in Ayios Fotios, allowing Amateurs in most parts of the Island to talk to each other. The link is semi-duplex  on 434.725 with 88.5 Hz PL on TX and RX. Thanks to those under the command of Repeater Working Group Manager Norman 5B4AIE who completed this project 11 January 2008, although there will probably be experimental changes to it.

RU 439.600 88.5 Hz                                            Not Installed                    

The input offset for the 2m repeaters is -600KHz, and for the 70cm repeater -5MHz.

*       R5 has been upgraded.
**     R4 covers Greater Lemesos.
***   R2 was refurbished 27 May 2006, and 9 September 2007 was installed at Vavatsinia. It covers a large part of the Island.
            HERE is a report on work completed on this repeater.
**** R6 covers Pafos area only.

Other Middle East Repeaters: Click HERE

VHF SIMPLEX

S20 145.500 is used as a simplex calling frequency.
S23 145.575 with 88.5 Hz tone is a popular simplex frequency in Limassol.
S22 145.550 Pafos Club net, Sunday morning 0915 local. Everyone welcome.

You will hear many non-amateur stations transmitting from other Middle East countries, using the 2m band. But, if you hear a Cyprus QSO in Greek and you speak only English, just break in, should be no problem!

APRS

There is island wide coverage of the APRS network for fixed and mobile stations.

144.800  APRS   5B4CYA-3         Limassol                                                                

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144.800  APRS              5B4CYA-2         Pissouri                                                                 
144.800  APRS                                    Agios Photios                                                         
144.800  APRS              5B8BE-11         Vavatsinia
144.800  DX Cluster       5B4AIE-1         Pafos                                                      

News 9 July 2006
Donation by Totos 5B4AP

5B4AP Totos has donated two UHF repeaters + cavities + antennas to CARS. The CARS Repeater Group is now planning to set up the repeaters for use by Cyprus Amateurs asap. CARS wishes to thank Totos 5B4AP for his very generous donation.

News 3 August 2007
Email over APRS

We have run some tests and can now confirm that the Cyprus APRS network succesfully supports the submission of email via APRS to any internet email address. To do this you need to send an APRS message as you would normally send however as a callsign you put 'EMAIL'. Then you need to start your message with the email address you are sending to and then the actual message. As an example if I wanted to send an email to someone@something.com via APRS I would send an APRS message to 'EMAIL' and the message would have been "someone@something.com Hi someone I just send you this email using my 2m handheld radio".

This is a very nice feature but it has a limitation to 67 characters, however it could be very useful especially in cases of emergency for contacting emergency services.

For more information you can visit http://www.aprs-is.net/email.htm

For an introduction to APRS see G4IQI Website.  For a fairly high resolution map of Cyprus click HERE

BEACONS

•  B4  5B4CY 4m: 70.1125MHz
•  B6  5B4CY 6m: 50.497-50.499MHz (drifts) to a GP at KM64pr.
• B10 5B4CY 10m: 28.219MHz at KM64pr