I guess after 25 years of happy coexistence, the air force base decided now 
that some UHF repeaters in the area, including all the ones on the cape, 
were interfering with them and sent out letters back in February or March. 
They were supposed to correct the problem by July first but they won't even 
tell the repeater owners what they're bothering or where so they can't move 
antennas or something. I guess they dropped all the repeaters down to 5 
watts hoping that would fix the problem and haven't heard any more on it but 
5 watts on a UHF repeater isn't much. Especially when they used to cover all 
of cape cod with the system, I don't know for sure but from my travels 
through there every year of my life, every summer, that's got to be a 
nightmare in a lot of areas. Where I'll be staying this year it won't be bad 
but where I used to stay I'd bet you can't do anything with UHF repeaters 
anymore and that's so close to the base anyway actually that you probably 
don't dare run a mobile there with any power. We'll have to see when I'm 
down there but I know when the band was decent I could make the closer 
repeaters from home. Now, I can't even begin to hear them.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brett Winches" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: Repeaters on Cape Cod


> John,  Why the power reduction?  Is the part of a "quiet zone" for radio
> astronomy or national security?  =20
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Miller
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 12:27 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Repeaters on Cape Cod
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> When I'm down there, which I will be from August 11 to the 25th, I
> frequent the 146.955 repeater, pl 88.5  another one that's decent but
> tough to hit with an HT from a lot of places unless you're way on cape
> is 146.655, same tone if they're using it. There's a nice network on 440
> as well but no one ever hardly uses it and now that they had to turn
> most of the repeaters down to 5 watts,=20