I didn't initially want to step into this, or encourage this discussion. However, some have posted their more thoughtful and comprehensive comments. Therefore, I will post a few of my own here now.
Political correctness is a fact of life, but courtesy should reign above all. Living in one culture or another without direct knowledge of the other's mindset, one should be a little more tolerant and not assume eveyone else, those with another opinion, is an inbred idiot. Southerners can "Get 'er done!" Today, more than ever, we need to help our repeater owners "conform to good engineering and good amateur practice." It only takes a few hours of studying a Q&A resource, followed by testing, to be authorized to put up a repeater. That doesn't necessarily help the newbie repeater owner be fully up to snuff on "good engineering and good amateur practice." Has anyone given any thought as to how much interference will occur once the FCC authorizes auxiliary operation on two-meters? We already have quasi-auxiliary operations, such as on-channel remote-bases and VoIP links. Of those, some have been problems, and others have not. The use of "tone access" should be strongly encouraged. Steve, AA5SG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nate Duehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 7:37 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] snide remarks <snip> Requiring everyone to be politically correct and the associated groupthink is double-plus bad. (With apologies to Orwell.) Don't worry, having a personal opinion about something and being allowed to discuss it will come back into vogue someday, hopefully. Requiring CTCSS on the other hand, is good practice. Colorado has required it now for all new coordinations for quite some time now. There's no restriction on whether or not you can turn it off if you feel like it, but you're required to have it available on your system. If you experience interference that using your CTCSS access can clear up, and complain -- well, then it's "shame on you". And there's at least a recourse for the coordination folks to point at the rules and say, "You're choosing to operate outside your coordination." That's smart. Waiting for people to do it on their own is dumb, because it makes the coordination body have to work extra hard when they complain about co-channel and adjacent-channel interference, or worse -- have problems with mixing at sites with multiple transmitters and haven't bothered to learn enough about mixing to deal with the problem themselves. Nate WY0X Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
