Last night I set up a PMR446 internet gateway which will allow anyone within a 1 to 2 mile range of my house to communicate with people around the world using a PMR446 radio. As an example of what this does, someone within range of my gateway link can talk through my link radio, over the internet, and out through another gateway in, say, Belgium or Australia (on UHF CB). Someone within range of that second repeater gateway can then communicate back and thus establish a conversation.
The gateway (UK095-L) is running 24/7 on Channel 4, CTCSS code 19 and should be available across the Town Centre/Howley/Manchester Road areas of Warrington at least.
What happened to your gateway, and why did you remove it?. Just got re-interested in 446 after a couple of years, and found little to no support for pmr446 gateways, especially yours gone from Warrington.
Hi Rick,
It went offline when the 446user.co.uk server disappeared towards the end of 2007. I know some people have since moved to the one run by http://www.pmr-radio.net/ but whenever I have checked it there haven’t been many gateways connected. The 446user server was pretty quiet towards the end as well. Shame really as it was great fun and very busy during its heyday.
The PC I had running it has since died as well but the radio is still in the loft so never say never.
Cheers,
Nathan