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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