[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While it's probably off topic for this group I have to agree with Nate, Jim > seems to have an unrealistic perception of what repeaters are about. No where > in the rules does it say ham frequencies are to be used only for emergencies.
Now where the hell did I say that???? On the contrary, I made it a point to say ham repeaters do need to be used enough that users are familiar with it, and how to talk in general. > What it does say is that we are a "service" with several fundamental > purposes, > one of them being "to provide a voluntary noncommercial communications > service > to the public, particularly with respect to providing emergency > communications." There are 4 other paragraphs describing the purpose and > basis of the > Amateur Radio SERVICE. Exactly-BUT the public service/emergency comm's aspect is what works best to get into sites, get non-profit status, and other things. > > I do have to agree with Jim in that there are far to many conversations held > on repeaters that could be held on simplex frequencies. While repeaters are a > gathering point in the radio spectrum by way of the way they operate, I think > a lot of us would monitor the repeaters more if there weren't so many > "babblers" on these channels. Who wants to hear "Now I passing the Wall Mart, > Now I'm > passing the Burger King, Now I'm passing........" on and on ad nausium. That was my point...I hear complaints about ham repeaters being under utilized, but when I listen to the same repeaters, I find I have to take them out of my scan list because they OVER-utilized. If you set up a repeater as an emergency comm's system, you HAVE to try to make it as available as possible. If someone has a problem, they likely won't want to wait for someone to stop talking about their gout. I > would like to see more repeaters pass multiple PL codes or use the touch tone > call paging available in many radios so that those of us wanting to use the > repeater frequency as a central gathering point could be called without > having to > listen to all the extraneous "garbage". > > Art - KC7GF > Golden, CO That's a very valid application, and can, and I'm sure does, work very well for many people. -- Jim -------- "The higher you are, the harder it is to pump." -Cleveland Mayor Jane Cambell, after the big black-out of 2003 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
