Re: [Repeater-Builder] One way transmitting question

2009-05-24 Thread Mike Naruta AA8K
The two nearest NOAA weather transmitters to here are 50 miles away, in adjacent counties. The NOAA site shows coverage to about half of our county to be, 0dBuV to 18dBuV: picking up a signal is possible but unreliable A NOAA antenna at about 45 feet and a Radio Shack receiver allows us to

Re: [Repeater-Builder] One way transmitting question

2009-05-24 Thread MCH
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] One way transmitting question Ok, I have a question that has been bothering me over the last few days. I had mentioned that we wanted to use our repeater to send out a set of tones to activate fire style pager (this was some time ago) and people said we should not do

Re: [Repeater-Builder] One way transmitting question

2009-05-23 Thread Kris Kirby
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Christopher Hodgdon wrote: Ok, I have a question that has been bothering me over the last few days. I had mentioned that we wanted to use our repeater to send out a set of tones to activate fire style pager (this was some time ago) and people said we should not do it

Re: [Repeater-Builder] One way transmitting question

2009-05-23 Thread mch
Telemetry is legal, so if it's alerting you as to the conditions at or near the site, it should be fine. Nowhere does it require the telemetry to be in data-only format. Joe M. On Sat 23/05/09 4:28 PM , Kris Kirby k...@catonic.us sent: On Fri, 22 May 2009, Christopher Hodgdon wrote: Ok, I

Re: [Repeater-Builder] One way transmitting question

2009-05-23 Thread Kris Kirby
On Sat, 23 May 2009 m...@nb.net wrote: Telemetry is legal, so if it's alerting you as to the conditions at or near the site, it should be fine. Nowhere does it require the telemetry to be in data-only format. Yes, But... You didn't clarify how in the world that matters in the current

Re: [Repeater-Builder] One way transmitting question

2009-05-23 Thread mch
I thought the original post was about alarms and paging, not weather alerts. So, if the fan goes out on your amp, it's better to let it burn rather then send out an alert to notify a control op? Oh, and last I knew weather DOES impact repeater sites the same as any other location, so if

[Repeater-Builder] One way transmitting question

2009-05-22 Thread Christopher Hodgdon
Ok, I have a question that has been bothering me over the last few days. I had mentioned that we wanted to use our repeater to send out a set of tones to activate fire style pager (this was some time ago) and people said we should not do it for one reason or another. One of those reasons was

Re: [Repeater-Builder] One way transmitting question

2009-05-22 Thread Ralph Mowery
--- On Fri, 5/22/09, Christopher Hodgdon chris.hodg...@kaufman-ares.org wrote: From: Christopher Hodgdon chris.hodg...@kaufman-ares.org Subject: [Repeater-Builder] One way transmitting question To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, May 22, 2009, 6:43 PM Ok, I have a question

Re: [Repeater-Builder] One way transmitting question

2009-05-22 Thread rertman
-Builder] One way transmitting question Ok, I have a question that has been bothering me over the last few days. I had mentioned that we wanted to use our repeater to send out a set of tones to activate fire style pager (this was some time ago) and people said we should not do it for one reason