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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