On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Nate Duehr wrote:
> His comments about "old farts" is probably technically accurate. A
> large percentage of older hams (too large) will invite you over for an
> "807" and talk mighty talk about "the old days of radio" but they won't
> take ten minutes to solder a $30 tone board into their old [insert old
> 2m rig here]. And they're uneducated and lazy about learning the real
> issues surrounding the operation of a modern repeater at a high-RF site.
To be fair, I've had an old-timer school me once or twice. I got to
talking with him about a 25+ year old two-meter radio and the problem with
CTCSS and he told me that he fixed that problem already. With two
transistors and some parts, he built an astable multivibrator on 100hz and
got into the repeater just fine. Sounded a bit off, being a square wave,
and a little hot, but it did work and didn't cost more than $5.
As far as the modern concerns of a high-RF enviroment, I think a lot of
people have a lot to learn about radio in those enviroments. Some people
have made sucessful careers engineering it alone, so you know it's not the
easiest racket out there.
And the FCC narrowbanding every other service is just going to make things
worse.
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