Hi.
I really like the 220 MHz band, and think it is one of the most wasted
pieces of radio spectrum from a standpoint of falling short of its
potential. I used to co-own a repeater on that band, and I loved it. The
coverage is very much like 2 meters, but of course the antennas are much
smaller.
I'm afraid we are going to lose this band one day, and frankly the FCC
would be very justified in taking it because we are not really using it
very effectively. In Rochester there are exactly two repeaters on the
band, and they are just ports on linked repeater systems that also have
ports all over the 2 meter and 70 cm bands.
I'd love to have the resources to put up a couple of good machines and get
a bunch of guys to all go in and get a bunch of radios and give the band
some activity.
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 04:30 PM 2/6/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>why not get some 220 equipment? or 900 meg or 1.2 gig or even 50 megs? all
>of those seem to be terribly under used everywhere except huge cities like
>LA or new york.
>there are some excellent possibilities in the 900 meg band for mobile
>use...less power required, smaller antennas, cheaper radios and i think,
>better local coverage in most cases. By better local coverage, i mean, you
>can hit a 900 meg repeater with five wats from inside a city a whole lot
>better then you can hit a repeater with a 5 watt HT on VHF...it really shows
>its good uses in an urban center where there are alot of buildings and
>structures to block signals...900 or 1.2 megs can get through that stuff a
>bit easier then VHF typically can. The only down fall to freqs up there is
>that you need the repeaters antennas up quite high for them to be effective
>whereas with vhf they only need to be around 20/30 feet up to get the job
>done.
>Regards
>Colin
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 11:47 AM
>Subject: Re: Open repeater
>
>
> > I thought about my own repeater some day, but 2 meters is full and 440,
> > while it would be nice I don't think it would get used at all so I'll wait
> > and see what happens down the road. If I put echolink on it I'd bet it
>would
> > get used but I really don't know if I'll ever even bother.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bob -- KA5ETA" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 1:22 PM
> > Subject: Re: Open repeater
> >
> >
> > >I have just the other problem here. I own my repeater and it does not
> > > belong to a club so I can not get it very high, so no one uses it.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 11:31 AM
> > > Subject: Open repeater
> > >
> > >
> > >> We have no access tones and no sub tones and the machine is fully open.
> > >> Node 224 698 by N0O U L and the machine is K E 0 S J and we have a 450
> > > link.
> > >> The club owns two other repeaters. We are also poor.
> > >>
> > >> Phil.
> > >> K0NX
> > >>
> > >>
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> > >>
> > >>
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Louis Kim Kline
A.R.S. K2LKK
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