Early seventies I believe. The club bought the Micor repeater new
from the factory on the amateur band back then. The new repeater
replaced a pair of Motorola Three-Pak strips I had found in a
surplus store in the late sixties.
BTW, you need some Three-Pak schematic diagrams? (Anyone else need
them?)
73,
Neil - WA6KLA
Mike WA6ILQ wrote:
>
> 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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