Paul Plack wrote:
Nate,
If you leave the repeater on all day, but block calls from anyone but a
few friends, what has changed? Someone throwing out his callsign will
still find the room empty.
Well, they could always hit and hold the EMR (probably originally
meant to be Emergency mode,
Peter Dakota Summerhawk wrote:
Some of the “paper repeaters” that are not working and listed on the
repeater directory need to be taken down and reassigned as they are just
tying up space and if they are not used other than for special event
then they need to go the way of the dodo.
Message-
From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
larryjspamme...@teleport.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:48 PM
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Amateur Radio Repeater Usage
Yet there is no end
@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Amateur Radio Repeater Usage - what are you
going to do about it?
Benjamin,
The sparse activity seems to be everywhere.One suggestion is to
add IRLP to your repeater. When there is no local activity there always
seems to be someone listening
: Nate Duehr
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Amateur Radio Repeater Usage - what are you
going to do about it?
One way to accomodate both is fancy CTCSS schemes, or in the case of
D-STAR, the coded squelch
Benjamin,
The sparse activity seems to be everywhere.One suggestion is to
add IRLP to your repeater. When there is no local activity there always
seems to be someone listening on the various reflectors all over the world
and you can chat with them.
Some time back, I was driving to pick up my
17, 2008 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Amateur Radio Repeater Usage - what are you
going to do about it?
Benjamin,
The sparse activity seems to be everywhere.One suggestion is to
add IRLP to your repeater. When there is no local activity there always
seems to be someone
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From: John J. Riddell
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Amateur Radio Repeater Usage -
what are you going to do about it?
Benjamin
Paul Plack wrote:
This is an interesting debate. Anyone who builds a repeater finds
satisfaction when it attracts a community of users - A warm heatsink is
a happy heatsink. But many users seem to favor repeaters with little
traffic, allowing unobtrusive monitoring for their friends.
One
Benjamin L. Naber wrote:
For those of you who are really doing all they can, this message is not
for you. It's for those that say they are so busy. So busy with what?
Really, ask yourself, what makes you sooo busy that you cannot get on
the air at home or in the car? Even for five damn
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Tony L. wrote:
We're continuing to experience a significant drop off in usage of ham
repeaters (all bands) in the Northern NJ area.
It is not uncommon to find a repeater that has been dormant for
months.
What's it like in your part of the country?
In central
larryjspamme...@teleport.com wrote:
Yet there is no end to requests for repeater pairs, especially on
2-Meters. And now, future D-STAR repeater owners seem to have their eye
on existing analog repeater pairs, and are making battle plans to get
their requests moved up ahead of people already
, December 16, 2008 3:01 PM
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Amateur Radio Repeater Usage
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Tony L. wrote:
We're continuing to experience a significant drop off in usage of ham
repeaters (all bands) in the Northern NJ area
In Western New York State I'd say activity dropped off back in the 80's but
then stayed at that level.
Chuck
WB2EDV
- Original Message -
From: Tony L. railtrailbi...@yahoo.com
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:44 PM
Subject: [Repeater-Builder]
3 of the 7 coordinated 2-meter repeaters in my area are quite active. 6 are
actually on-the-air. One of the active repeaters is currently getting a
facelift which should increase its activity even more.
One of the machines I maintain currently runs Echolink and is linked with a
WX-200
] Amateur Radio Repeater Usage
3 of the 7 coordinated 2-meter repeaters in my area are quite active. 6 are
actually on-the-air. One of the active repeaters is currently getting a
facelift which should increase its activity even more.
One of the machines I maintain currently runs Echolink
Sorry, that was part of a joke meant to go to a friend and not on this list!!
-- Original Message --
Received: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:58:37 PM PST
From: JOHN MACKEY jmac...@usa.net
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Amateur Radio Repeater Usage
On Dec 16, 2008, at 3:53 PM, Jacob Suter wrote:
I personally don't see much future in amateur radio in its current
path. I
personally don't think d-star is going to magically adjust the
path. What
we need is something that's socially acceptable in 2008. Squawkbox
HTs
don't cut
...@usa.net
To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Amateur Radio Repeater Usage
This probably sounds strange to you, but it is really cool and kind
of a
turn on that you are Irish!
-- Original Message --
Received: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:22:56 PM PST
From: Mike
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:21:13 -0700, you wrote:
The cell phone companies get something like $20/month to numbers well
over $120/month out of you to provide all that infrastructure. Some
large linking systems get $10/month out of all members... that's
probably the highest I've heard of. My
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