Communications Overview
NSR in partnership with several organizations has established
five (5) VHF radio repeater sites that allow our team to
communicate across the North Shore, up the Indian Arm and
Howe Sound, the GVRD and well beyond.This is vital for search
and rescue operations and team member safety. Our team also
allows other sister SAR teams to use our repeaters for tasks
in their locale as required. NSR would like to express our
deep gratitude the following organizations for their respective
help :
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Mt. Seymour Repeater Site
- Industry Canada, BC Parks, Mt. Seymour Resorts
and CelCom Systems
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Mt. Strachan Repeater Site
- Indusrty Canada, BC Parks, Cypress Mountain
and CelCom Systems
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SFU Repeater Site - Industry
Canada, SFU and Professor Peter Anderson,
CelCom Systems
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Bowen Island Repeater Site
- Industry Canada, Navigata Communications
- Grouse Repeater Site - Industry Canada,
Grouse Resorts and Cel Com Systems.
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Mt. Cathedral Repeater Site Project
- Thanks to Terry
Urbanowski and Brent Middleton of Tu Wolf Designs for their
installation of the new interconnect repeater. See
below.
Cathedral Deicing of Repeaters
 NSR and GVRD work together to de-ice both their repeater
comshells after the severe weather system in December
2006. The solar panels had to be carefully cleared off so
as to allow charging of batteries.
Mt. Cathedral Repeater Project
This project resulted in the establishment of a mountain
top VHF repeater located on Mt. Cathedral, in the GVRD Seymour
watershed. NSR would like to thank the GVRD and Ministry
of Forests for permission to co-locate beside their repeater
site at this location. We would like to thank North Shore
Credit Union, Safeway Parkgate and Lonsdale stores for funding
this project. We would also like to thank George Hoffman,
Don Johnson and Cel-Com Communications for donating their
time and expertise in installing the repeater site and in
addition, Talon Helicopters and RCMP Air Services who donated
several hours of air time to move material to the site,
which is located at almost 6,00 feet. Lastly, thanks to
the many members who donated their time and effort towards
completion of this project.
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