At the time of writing, there are 15 amateur radio repeaters located in the county of Essex, with a number of other repeaters bordering Essex, in London, Hertfordshire, Suffolk and across the water in Kent. On this page, we list the repeater sites located within the borders of Essex:
Essex Repeater List : 2m Analogue
| Repeater | Location | Output | Input | Offset | CTCSS | Notes |
| GB3DA | Danbury, Chelmsford | 145.725 | 145.125 | -0.6 | 110.9 | Run by ERG |
| GB3TE | Clacton | 145.6125 | 145.0125 | -0.6 | 67.0 | Run by Martello Tower Group |
Essex Repeater List : 70cm Analogue
| Repeater | Location | Output | Input | Offset | CTCSS | Notes |
| GB3BZ | Braintree | 430.85 | 438.45 | +7.6 | 110.9 | Run by BADARS |
| GB3OY | Buckhurst Hill | 430.95 | 438.55 | +7.6 | 82.5 | |
| GB3CL | Clacton | 433.225 | 434.825 | +1.6 | 67.0 | Run by Martello Tower Group |
| GB3CE | Colchester | 433.35 | 434.95 | +1.6 | 67.0 | Run by Martello Tower Group |
| GB3ER | Danbury, Chelmsford | 433.075 | 434.675 | +1.6 | 110.9 | Run by ERG |
| GB3HW | Romford * | 433.325 | 434.925 | +1.6 | 110.9 |
Essex Repeater List : 70cm Digital (D-Star) – Help: D-Star in Essex
| Repeater | Location | Output | Input | Offset | CTCSS | Notes |
| GB7ZP | Chelmsford | 439.4875 | 430.4875 | -9.0 | N/A | Run by ERG |
| GB7HH | Romford * | 439.7500 | 430.7500 | -9.0 | N/A | Multi-mode |
| GB7CH | Hainault * | 439.6125 | 430.6125 | -9.0 | N/A | Multi-mode |
| GB7TE | Clacton | 145.775 | 145.175 | -0.6 | N/A | Run by Martello Tower Group |
Essex Repeater List : 70cm Digital (DMR) – Help: DMR in Essex
| Repeater | Location | Output | Input | Offset | CTCSS | Notes |
| GB7EX | Benfleet | 439.7125 | 430.7125 | -9.0 | N/A | Details: gb7ex.org.uk |
| GB3BZ | Braintree | 430.85 | 438.45 | +7.6 | N/A | Run by BADARS |
| GB7CL | Clacton | 439.6375 | 430.6375 | -9.0 | N/A | Run by Martello Tower Group |
| GB7HH | Romford * | 439.7500 | 430.7500 | -9.0 | N/A | Multi-mode |
| GB7CH | Hainault * | 439.6125 | 430.6125 | -9.0 | N/A | Multi-mode |
| GB7SE | Thurrock | 439.475 | 430.475 | -9.0 | N/A |
Essex Repeater List : Digital – Yaesu System Fusion C4FM
Band: 70CM (DVU49) Output frequency: 439.6125 MHz RX Frequency: 430.6125 MHz
| Repeater | Location | Output | Input | Offset | CTCSS | Notes |
| GB3DA | Danbury | 145.725 | 145.125 | -0.6 | N/A | Also supports analogue.Run by ERG |
| GB3ER | Danbury | 433.0750 | 434.6750 | +1.6 | N/A | Also supports analogue. Run by ERG |
| GB7CE | Great Clacton | 439.6125 | 430.6125 | -9.0 | N/A | N/A |
| GB7HH | Romford * | 439.7500 | 430.7500 | -9.0 | N/A | Multi-mode |
| GB7CH | Hainault * | 439.6125 | 430.6125 | -9.0 | N/A | Multi-mode |
Essex Repeater List : 6 metres
| Repeater | Location | Output | Input | Offset | CTCSS | Notes |
| GB3DB | Danbury, Chelmsford | 50.77 | 51.27 | -0.5 | 110.9 | Run by ERG |
Essex Repeater List : Slow Scan TV
| Repeater | Location | Output | Input | Offset | CTCSS | Notes |
| MB7TV | Clacton | 144.500 | 144.500 | N/A | N/A | Run by Martello Tower Group |
If any of the information is incorrect, please contact us
Other local repeaters
The definitive site for repeaters is at www.ukrepeater.net – Please visit this site for details of the repeaters that neighbour the county of Essex, and for a list of repeaters nationwide.
Worth a look
If you have a smartphone or a tablet, download one of the free UK amateur radio repeater applications – these help you to locate your nearest repeater and find the frequencies and tones needed to program your radio. Got an iPhone/iPad? See our Handy iPhone Apps page. Apps are also available for Android devices via the Google Play store.
Thanks to one of our members, Mitchell 2E0EMO, for suggesting that we add a list of Essex amateur radio repeaters to our site.
Related content
- Using a repeater – Our guide on getting started with repeaters
- Amateur Radio Nets in Essex
- D-Star Repeaters in Essex
* Technically Romford is in a London borough, and we’ve been asked to remove details of this local repeater. Members of Essex Ham have voted to keep the details of the repeater on this page, as it’s on the London/Essex border, and this is useful information. Other repeaters on the Essex/London border are also included
Romford is not in Essex.
Romford is in London.
In the London Borough of Havering in east London.
Since 1965.
I was born in Romford Essex. Essex is part of my address . All letters addressed to me end with – Romford Essex?
Not according to the Royal Mail website.
Check your driving licence. It won’t have Romford, Essex on it.
Hi I’ve recently brought a HD H3 Radio and would like to set my Radio up to its fully cap
It’s Essex, I live there
So why do you pay council tax to a London Borough and the Greater London Authority but not Essex County Council?
Why are you able to vote in the London Mayoral elections but not the Essex Crime Commissioner elections?
Hi my name is john my callsign is G0DZz
I’m inquire about how to update your repeater listing on you site website
in October 22 I got a Nov for a local repeater which is a fusion type location is great clacton the call sign GB7CE
Is it possible to be update for this locate please
Thank you
Hi John. Sure. It’s now added.Thanks for the update.
As requested, we have removed the reference to the Romford repeater, making it that little bit harder for locals to find some useful information.
Trust that means with your approval?
Reminds me of some of the debates we have on Old English forums. We have Brummies claiming Essex belongs to the Mercians and the Ēast Seaxna Rīce heptarchy folk claiming most of the lower black country from Mercia lol.
Let’s just have a list of repeaters for the Ēast Seaxna Rīce heptarchy and be done with it.
Gosh, we could even subjugate those pesky Romfordian ceorls by reminding them we owned their butts since the 6th century lol
Wes thu hal,
Eolderman 2E0WHB :-) :-)
Romford was part of Essex until 1965 were it became part of Greater London. Romford has not move location since at least 1964. :)
Following a debate on the Monday Night Net on 8th February, the feeling from members is that the information about the Romford repeater is of interest to people in Essex, and not just in London, and due to the proximity, members have asked for this to be restored.
We are not happy about this but understand your position. We appreciate your efforts including the footnote.
Our aim is to help cut geographic confusion. It may seem trival but it can get very serious when people contact the wrong authority about an urgent matter.
When it comes to repeaters the authority on repeaters Ofcom so they dont care for if it is Essex or London.
We not sad about people voting for this. We care about the greater radio community and helping benfit people. You sir helped no one.
You’ve missed the point entirely. Correct geography is always important.
We’ve helped alot of people over the years. We’ll continue our valueable work.
The Football team i support is Romford fc and they are members of the Essex football Association. I think the trouble is no one in this area voted to be part of London so a lot of people still consider like myself to be part of Essex not London.
You’ll consider it London when it comes to getting your Freedom Pass tho…
I am a licensed radio amateur, call sign, G4PZX and I am 92 years young. For years I have enjoyed amateur Radio, especially Echolink, which got me round the world on 2metres,mthrough a repeater station in Claiton, unfortunately now closed down. As Inno longer have HF equipment I am somewhat curtailed in my hobby.I live just outside Colchester and I am anxious to find another echolink frequency to use, can anyone help.
Signed Alex G4PZX
Hi Alex long time no heard any thing from you this is Brian G4ZEK .
So I guess you will/may not want to know/advise when MB7PH is made live on 23cm from Romford, Essex in the LBOHavering then?!
No such place as Romford, Essex. As you alloued to, Romford is in the London Borough of Havering. As such, it can’t possibly be in Essex.
Not worth arguing about, what is more important is the possible loss of 2m and 23 cms.
Can you not take your pick? Similarly Middlesex has to coexist with a number of modern “boundaries”, you can send post addressed to either the Middlesex address or a more modern one, it all gets delivered as the postcode narrows things down for accuracy.
I was born in an RM postcode and lived in one for many years, that to me is Essex and it stretches up to the River Lea which is its boundary in the west. However, if you want to call it the LBoHavering then be my guest, my birth cert says otherwise and we were there first! 100 years on from 1965 and no-one will know what you are talking about. May be then they will be forced to change the Duke of Essex pubs as well, but it won’t sound as good.
Enjoy the 100 year transition – in the meantime, I am proud of being from Essex – even though I now live in GB3IK country hi hi.
So according to you, Stratford’s in Essex, which means the 2012 Olympics were in Essex not London. Yeah, i think I’ll stick to the modern boundaries as you call them, just as you old timers all do when it comes to getting your Freedom Pass – you’re all Londoners then!
I was born in Ilford Essex more precisely Hainault ,its housing estate is in Chigwell Essex but known as the Hainault estate make what you will out of that
Ilford and Hainault were both in Essex until they were transferred to London in 1965.
The one I Find funny is London Gatwick don t have a London postcode and London Heathrow is in Middlesex !!! and is covered by 5 TW postcodes
Middlesex was abolished in 1965… So no, Heathrow ain’t in Middlesex. It’s in London.
As for London Gatwick, it means it serves London not that it’s in London. The London Underground goes to Epping, but Epping is in Essex not London.
It’s simple, if a place is in a London Borough then it’s in London.
Have a look on YouTube, search for this (Romford, Essex debate explained)
“Why does London have 32 boroughs?”
“What’s wrong with London’s boroughs?”
By the Map Men
https://youtu.be/daeB46Z4fjs
https://youtu.be/_T_0FYHn0I0
Don’t need to look on YouTube, I already know the facts. Romford’s clearly in London and clearly not in Essex.
This page needs updating at GB7KH Is no longer but you now have GB7HH in Romford ESSEX.
Thanks Gareth. Now updated!
No such place as Romford Essex
Who cares which part of the World Romford is in. All I know is that I can get there if I want to. So what is the point in arguing if it’s in London or Essex. It’s still in the same place as it always was.
@Old Contemptible, you need to resurch the difronce between postal areas and local authority’s as the two are very difront and there are cross overs.
Postal areas are for delivering post whereas local authorities are for administering services etc. Romford comes under the Romford postal town & under the London Borough of Havering. Romford is not in Essex postally or geographically. Geographically Romford is in the London Region, Greater London Lieutenancy, & Havering London Borough; Essex doesn’t come into it.
I hate myself now because I read these comments to the end thinking that there was something relevant to radio repeaters. I think you should list any repeater within geographical range of Essex, maybe consider listing all UK digital nodes too… :)
do radio waves obey boundary rules, like London, Essex, and so on? Surely boundaries are man-made and can change like the wind according to political whim. Radio waves don’t care about which authority it is, who “owns” the area, or anything else. It is very sad that people have to make a drama out of something that is not actually relevant to successful radio communications. Boundaries are a matter of perspective. To most people they should not matter in this instance and with respect to this particular topic. However they do something to the psyche of the person when they become all important and all encompassing. Good luck with that.
Romford was part of Essex until 1965 were it became part of Greater London. Romford has not move location since at least 1964. :)
Romford hasn’t moved location but the London/Essex boundary has. The boundary was moved by Act of Parliament in 1965. Romford ceased to be a part of Essex at that time. Since then Romford has been a part of London.
just had a look at my 2018 London and South East railmap and my local railway station is listed as Rainham (Essex) so you can travel by train to Rainham Essex even if it is in the London bourgh of Havering. Another point i have seen some modern day maps of Essex and on some Thurock and Southend are missing or are a different colour to the rest of Essex. Just a shame everything was changed back in 1965.
According to Transport for London your local station is Rainham London.
Southend and Thurrock are unitary authorities in the ceremonial county of Essex. The rest of Essex is administered by Essex County Council. Emergency services like Essex Police, and Essex Fire & Rescue serve the whole county as does the Essex Crime and Safety Commissioner.
Things are always changing. You’re here using the internet, you wouldn’t be if things had stayed the same as pre-1965.