History of the Group

The Huddersfield Repeater Group was started in the 1980s by a group of amateurs from the Denby Dale Amateur Radio Society to give the amateurs of Huddersfield a repeater system to cover Huddersfield and the surrounding areas. The first repeater was GB3HD. After the sudden loss of John G0PRF in 2014, the repeater is now run by two trustees, Kevin G1FYS and Malcolm G0ISX. The running costs mostly come out of the pockets of the trustees, supplemented by generous donations from the local amateurs.

Over the years, GB3HD has had different homes to try and improve the coverage; the first home was in the house of the late George Grayson (G3YWI) in Almondbury; it then moved to Crosland Hill at the former site of Goodall's caravans. In 1997 a site at Scapegoat Hill was obtained and new 4 stack antenna was installed on the 100 FT mast. The repeater was up and running with a much-improved coverage of the local area, it remained on air up to the GB7HX digital repeater going live in 2011, much to the disappointment of the local amateurs, GB3HD had to be taken off for the new digital repeater to go live.

GB3HD came back on the air in 2014 with a new folded dipole antenna and feeder cable. This improved coverage in the Halifax area to the delight of the local amateurs. And now, into the 21st century, with system Fusion from Yaesu.

gb3hd and gb7hx new tower from Malcolm Williams on Vimeo.