Wow! Must be a difficult thing to play, unless you had a linux box to send
the code to the controller to do the change at the proper time and such,
some how newsline has to be made to not time out the system, although if
they autopatch it in, they probably set up a code to disable the timer
during that one call some how. It seems interesting all the stuff they can
play with.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: PL Required for Repeater Coordination


> I know of a local repeater that only uses the PL at night because in the
day
> time the band usually isn't as open as at night usually so people don't
> bring it up bringing up other repeaters as much, others including that one
> in the summer time, shut it off for nets but run it the rest of the time.
As
> for the beep change, No clue but I know some owners that like to play,
> others around here they do that for sky warn nets and events, they change
> the tone so people know it's the skywarn tone so not to use the repeater
> with out checking first to see what's up.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brent Harding" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:57 PM
> Subject: Re: PL Required for Repeater Coordination
>
>
> > Don't repeaters that have tones always use them anyways? I don't really
> > see
> > much reason to disable them if systems already use them. I know a local
> > one
> > used to have a code for doing such, which I used a few times on my old
rig
> > when the PL would get messed up and I didn't have assistance to change
it.
> > I
> > heard some systems only use it at night for some reason. I've known of a
> > couple repeaters that had different courtesy beeps at night, not sure
what
> > the point of changing at night does to the repeater besides a different
> > beep.
> >
>