Not this again... sheesh. -Brian
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:27 PM, WA3GIN<wa3...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > I'm not aware of any closed repeaters in the WDC area. In the VA-Md-DC area > perhaps a half dozen noted as (c) by T-MARC. There are dozens of repeaters > in the WDC area that go unused day after day after day with a little use in > the evenings by a few hand fulls of civil defense volunteers. There is no > spectrum use issue. Perhaps as the commentator noted, there are too many low > power repeater pairs that perhaps preclude the installation of better > coverage systems. I tend to think there are some that hog freq. pairs purely > for egocentric reasons. > > SO, where is the beef - MURRAY? Who cares if there are a few closed > repeaters? Not me. What I'd like to see is the GMRA provisioning PL on > their repeater which is just 15KHz down from ours. As trustee I get tired of > silly request from the GMRA asking us to do something about our users who > occassionaly bring up their OPEN NON PL'd repeater ;-)) > > My subjective opinion of one...please flame direct and spare the reflector > members ;-) > > 73, > dave > wa3gin > www.w4ava.org > > > > >