At 07:53 PM 4/20/04 -0700, you wrote:
> As you may have observed in the past, I prefer to monitor a quiet
> repeater. The quieter the better. If it gets used a lot, I'll be
> listening elsewhere.
>
> If you want a repeater system to be available for emergency use,
> you need to understand not everyone will pay attention to useless
> chatter (to hear anyone talk) day in and day out.
>
> There is a nearby repeater that was installed especially for ARES,
> Skywarn and related activities. It seldom gets 'noisy' ... thank
> you very, very much. :)
>
> Just a personal opinion here. I have been listening to
> miscellaneous 'chatter' on various repeaters in excess of 40 years.
> Now, finally, I have decided to chose what I will listen to ... and
> what I won't.
>
> Neil McKie - WA6KLA
My attitude is similar and has been that way for many years.
This is one reason that every repeater I build has had switchable
PL encode - either between two tones or just keying the PL
encoder on. If the repeater normally ran PL I'd have a second
tone available.
I'd then park my home base station on the second tone, or if the
system normally ran carrier squelch it lived on the only tone.
The repeater controller had a touchtone function that switched
the encoder... it was a published code - a long "4". Look at your
touchtone keypad - the "advertising" sheet for the group had
this note: "Many of our members have home base stations
and their families don't like the irrelevant chatter. Usually
these base stations hide behind a PL decoder. A long "3"
will open the squelch for a single carrier tail call and a long
"4" on the touchtone pad will open the decoder until reset
by a "789" reset code. Consider the "4" to be reserved for
a CHP-type emergency call."
More than one person added the PL decoder to their radio
once they realized how useful it was.
Three years later the ARRL came out with their "Long Tone
Zero" campaign. Probably just a coincidence.
Neil - remember my suggesting this when the control system
for the PARC 01/61 Micor was being designed? What year
was that anyway?
Mike WA6ILQ
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