there are very few repeaters left I know of with out a tone on them.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: accessible transceivers


> Howard Kaufman writes:
>> Marty, I'd look for the PL board, that's a great radio and is still 
>> working.
> 
> I say this laughing a bit, but you are right. The
> quickest way to find one or probably a whole bag of them is to
> buy a new rig. Oh well, if that happens, I will have 2
> CTCSS-capable  2-meter transceivers.
> 
> I don't have very long to mess around as I am net
> control every other week for the Stillwater Area net. I imagine
> we'll have the tone on there in a month or two since this tropo
> skip is killing us this Summer.
> 
> Just last night, I was calling the net and it turns out
> that the Joplin, Missouri repeater which is the system
> co-located on 145.35 with us also called a net at the same time.
> It was murder since several of the Missouri stations were full
> quieting in to our system and, twice, I thought one was checking
> in to our net.
> 
> It's not their fault except that a few could probably do
> with a little less power or a directional antenna, but we really
> can't complain as long as we don't have a tone.
> 
> Anyway, the tone board is actually in place on our
> repeater and the engineer in charge only has to flip a switch to
> enable it so I imagine it will be sooner than later.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
> Systems Engineer
> OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group