The policy of some repeater coordination councils to insist on a 100-
mile co-channel separation for UHF (and 120 miles for the lower-
frequency bands) regardless of the ERP seems like overkill to me. In
fairness, they do allow the consideration of terrain/ERP factors at
locations below 3000 feet AMSL (and more stringent requirements for
"very high profile" locations above the 3000-foot elevation).
In the broadcast radio industry, we only worry about avoiding any
overlap of the 60 db protected contour with another co-channel
station's 40 db interference contour. Is it time to re-think the
coordination guidelines?
Paul "Noah" Yonge, CBT
W2ARK WQDT219
MIDLAKES REPEATER
On Feb 12, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Kevin Custer wrote:
> By the same token, there is nothing wrong with a repeater that out-
> hears
> the transmitter. If you feel there is no reason to run more than
> 50 or
> 100 watts, then fine, but some of us have the site conditions and
> equipment to allow greater sensitivity to be met with more power. I
> have a repeater running 5 watts, and it works fine.
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