Hi Dave, what the IRC wants to know is if there is any activity on the frequencies that you have been given to listen to. Then once you hear the activity, get the callsings of those using thre frequency. You are listening for various things, first coordinated activity, then uncoordinated activity, adjacent channel activity, do you get any operators that are close to you coming in on the input of the repeater pair that you are looking to use. The scanner recorder program they mentioned works great. If you not very far from where your repeater will be, at home listening will be fine. Once you have listened for a few weeks, then give your results to the IRC and they they will submit to the surrounding states and see if any of them oppose the pair they have given you. Hence warning, check the next pair above and below your given frequency within at least a 75 mile radius, if users use your system and they are beyond that point, they may cause
intereference and it would cause you to be come uncoordinated. So listen on, above and below and see what you hear. If you are within 10 to 15 miles of the repeater site, and you have a good gain antenna, listening at home will be just fine.
Mathew
Dave VanHorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 09:23 AM 6/5/2005, Jim Cicirello wrote:
>How about a tape recorder with VOX on the receiver? I have done this with a
>scanner, like the Bearcat with the recording option to where you can tell it
>to record on receive so the tape does not run all the time. At quieter sites
>where a weak front end on the receiver will survive, you can get away with a
>scanner. At sites with a lot of RF, you may need a commercial receiver and a
>VOX Circuit to your recorder. One option....Good luck JIM
I had that option till recently, my voxed recorder curled up and died recently.
Of course then you need to know what channel you're hearing.
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