You mean, what Echolink does? Julian, G4ILO
--- In [email protected], Andy obrien <k3uka...@...> wrote: > > This may be a little off the usual digital mode related topics. > > Today I was thinking about VHF/UHF FM voice repeaters and the trouble > repeater owners go to when maintaining a repeater site. Typically > the location is a high hill , atop a large tower, lots of hard line, > elaborate lightning protection, expensive and fussy duplexers, etc > etc. While I am sure it is fun to own such a system, it must > occasionally be quite a "chore". The chore is sometimes made worse by > the fact that repeater sites are often the result of begging cellular > tower operators for a bit of room for the hams, then losing the right > of access every time the cell site changes ownership (often very > frequently). > > So, in my day-dreaming today, I was thinking that surely modern > technology could come up with some innovation that would eliminate > the need to secure high sites atop 500 foot towers. I began to think > how 2M or 70cm radios could perhaps be re-invented with better > (smarter) cross-band or within-band repeat functions. Where , based > on some ALE concepts , K3UK calling a local ham on 2M could have the > simplex signal picked-up by a station within simplex range and > repeated to the desired destination station based on known LQA-type > tables . Or, like APRS, some signals are picked up and echoed > (repeated) based on number of "hops" than can be expected between > originating and destination station. Maybe "QST" or "CQ" calls would > get picked and repeated by the equivalent of "node" stations versus a > call between two stations ? Of course mobile operations would pose a > more difficult challenge .... back to the drawing board.... but this > mega station on a hill idea surely has to be reinvented sometime. > > Andy K3UK >
