Hmm.  Our closest AFB is 45 miles away    but we do have a NG Air and
Army here in Boise and a National tank training range but so far no
problems and we have 4,000 
Feat elevation at the repeater sites.  

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BRETT WINCHESTER
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-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Miller
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 1:45 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Repeaters on Cape Cod

I guess after 25 years of happy coexistence, the air force base decided
now that some UHF repeaters in the area, including all the ones on the
cape, were interfering with them and sent out letters back in February
or March. 
They were supposed to correct the problem by July first but they won't
even tell the repeater owners what they're bothering or where so they
can't move antennas or something. I guess they dropped all the repeaters
down to 5 watts hoping that would fix the problem and haven't heard any
more on it but
5 watts on a UHF repeater isn't much. Especially when they used to cover
all of cape cod with the system, I don't know for sure but from my
travels through there every year of my life, every summer, that's got to
be a nightmare in a lot of areas. Where I'll be staying this year it
won't be bad but where I used to stay I'd bet you can't do anything with
UHF repeaters anymore and that's so close to the base anyway actually
that you probably don't dare run a mobile there with any power. We'll
have to see when I'm down there but I know when the band was decent I
could make the closer repeaters from home. Now, I can't even begin to
hear them.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Winches" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: Repeaters on Cape Cod


> John,  Why the power reduction?  Is the part of a "quiet zone" for 
> radio astronomy or national security?  =20
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Miller
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 12:27 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Repeaters on Cape Cod
>
> When I'm down there, which I will be from August 11 to the 25th, I 
> frequent the 146.955 repeater, pl 88.5  another one that's decent but 
> tough to hit with an HT from a lot of places unless you're way on cape

> is 146.655, same tone if they're using it. There's a nice network on 
> 440 as well but no one ever hardly uses it and now that they had to 
> turn most of the repeaters down to 5 watts,=20