There's only one repeater I know of in my area with auto patch anymore and 
each club member who chooses to, can pretty much only call home or whatever 
emergency  number they designate. Other than the amateur radio news line 
every week, I don't think that auto patch has been used for anything else in 
7 or 8 years at the least, maybe more than 10.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: Third party rules.


> There was a time when we had to do that too.  There was at least one 
> person
> who was bringing up the autopatch without identifying himself and placing
> calls to either long distance or 976 numbers.  I had to bring down the 
> patch
> a few times myself when he did that, or tried to.  The club eventually
> blocked most of these numbers as well as long distance numbers, and when
> someone would try to do that, they would get a response in code, "SRI,"
> which I believe is an abbreviation for sorry.
> Harvey
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "COLLEEN ROTH" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 4:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Third party rules.
>
>
>>i have to say that there can be as many flaky people on the low bands as 
>>on
>>UHFSTVHF.
>> Not all poor operators are on UHFSTVHF.
>> Colleen Roth, N8TNV;