Jay K5ZC wrote: "There's no way to force repeaters off the air, coordinated or uncoordinated. Coordination bodies don't have that power. Only the FCC can do it, and they're not about to."
Regarding the US -- since the coordinating bodies do give out coordinations, and Part 97 says any interference between a coordinated and uncoordinated repeater must primarily be resolved by the latter, these bodies do have a lot of power. I don't forsee any substantive changes to Part 97 regarding frequency coordination, so improvements will have to come from the coordination organizations. In some regions, these are led by forward thinking people (I'm betting you are one of them) who encourage better use of the spectrum they manage -- and that doesn't necessarily mean they support digital voice or D-Star, but they do educate and lead their repeater operators to look at the bigger issues and encourage ways to maximize use of that spectrum, while at the same time, developing a viable transition process that existing repeater operators can live with. In other localities, that isn't happening yet, and many of us will have left the planet before it does happen. But I think that's where the game has to be played here in the US. Jim - K6JM ----- Original Message ----- From: Jay Maynard To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 7:20 PM Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] US D-STAR band planning and directories (Was:No DSTAR in South Carolina or Georgia?) On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 04:58:00PM -0700, bruce mallon wrote: > D-Star and echo-link will fit nicely into 145.500 - 145.700 with no > movement of other stations. EchoLink? Sure. D-Star? Not repeaters. Repeaters can't operate there. > Lets make use of THAT band before you want thousands of stations to move > .... > AND if a repeater is not on or is not being used the local coordination > should have the right to give THAT pair to a d-star group.also ALL > uncoordinated repeaters need to be? REMOVED analog or not ...... How do you decide? And are you willing to pay to defend the inevitable lawsuits? There's no way to force repeaters off the air, coordinated or uncoordinated. Coordination bodies don't have that power. Only the FCC can do it, and they're not about to. Jay Maynard, K5ZC Chairman, Minnesota Repeater Council
