Why tie up 15 to 20 repeaters with a chat between two stations - especially when some folks LIVE on a reflector and tie it up 12 hours a day ?
Also reflectors while great for wide area nets have become much like back yard repeaters, further fragmenting users. Seems the bulk of the traffic is on one CB catch all reflector slot and then many many small fragments spread out over the remaining 90 - 100 reflector slots - just the opposite result of concentrating contacts for nets comes about. " the knowledge and ability to do it seems to be sliding away. " implies that there was such to begin with. As you say, so few bother to learn how to use call sign routing. The biggest single factor to me is the very unfriendly user interface to the radio. Why not have a mix and match basket for frequencies, UR's etc and make it easier to program ? or better yet ICOM make your interface known so others can replace your control head with a smart palm top that is easy to use ? Again my 5 cents (recent tax increases force me to go up from 2 cents), and I may as always be wrong, steve nu5d On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Declan Mc Glone <[email protected]>wrote: > > > I think the issue there is simply that the majority of people just don’t do > Callsign Routing, and depend on DPlus > -- NU5D - Nickel Under Five Dollars
