bruce mallon wrote:
146.52 is what on the ARRL band plan back almost 40 years ?
Your point? The national calling frequency could just as easily be
145.52 mhz. or 145.51 mhz. -- there's nothing magical about 146.52 --
its just a frequency, that happens to sit right in the middle of the
REPEATER frequencies.
Now lets get the repeater groups to clean up what is already being
used for repeaters move D-star to a EXPERIMENTAL band and if Echo-like
is really repeaters make they coordinate like all other repeaters
...... there wise they go to the experminal band too ...
D-STAR REPEATERS are repeaters just like analog FM repeaters. There is
no "experimental" band for them. As pointed out, in many areas, all of
the traditional repeater pairs are "assigned" -- time to open up pairs
that fall in the repeater sub-band and a nice contiguous 200 kHz. works
great for setting 12.5 khz channels in a 30, 20, or 15 khz channel
bandwidth band plan and is a good and logical start. That those
frequencies have traditionally been simplex analog FM channels is not an
argument against the repurposing of the frequencies. Especially when
there is underutilized simplex frequencies in the band.
What's so hard about that ?
It isn't logical and doesn't work from a regulatory point of view.
Certainly if you can get paper repeater pairs back, use them, but it is
inefficient to use a 15, 20, 25, or 30 khz wide channel for something
that can fit in less than 12.5 khz. If we start with these 16-18 pairs,
then as more people move to narrow band, wider analog FM repeaters can
be moved around to extend this plan in 50-100 khz steps.
I'm still interested in a logical explanation why this isn't a
reasonable thing to do.
--
John D. Hays
Amateur Radio Station K7VE <http://k7ve.org>
PO Box 1223
Edmonds, WA 98020-1223
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