Actually, I can give you calls and names of everyone in this area with 220
equipment and there's nothing good on the market currently for that band,
even 440 is pretty slow where I am. I'm in a hole too which doesn't help me,
highest point in the city but I'm the lowest point in the middle of the
highest pint in the city if that makes sense, I always have something
cooking in my little mind though, we'll see what I come up with next.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: Open repeater
> my point was if you put something up that is not of the ordinary VHF or 70
> centimeter variety, perhaps some might begin to see the
> possibilities...but
> your right, alot of guys are pretty set in their ways and like to stick to
> 440 and 2M because the radios are easy to get still...and the other ones
> arent as easy quite yet, but they are becoming more popular as time
> goes
> on.
> Perhaps if you stick an IRLP node up for 6M or 220 it might get some use?
> Regards
> Colin
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 4:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Open repeater
>
>
>> the use is the issue, I'm not putting anything up to collect dust, I
>> don't
>> have the room for that, anything I put up is going to get used or I'll
> pull
>> it.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 6:30 PM
>> Subject: Re: Open repeater
>>
>>
>> > 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
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I Flew Kites With Jesus
>> >> >> www.safeplacefellowship.com
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
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>> >> >
>> >>
>> >
>>
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