three miles? the guy should get it.
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From: "Ray Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] UHF Power
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> From: "Paul Yonge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> 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).
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>> 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?
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> Absolutely. I have an Elmer here (okay, he's only 4 years older than
> me but he's a lifetime ARRL member and QCWA member) and he
> was putting up repeaters back in the 70's. He's been trying,
> unsuccessfully,
> for the past 5 years to get coordination on a 2m repeater because his
> location is 97 miles from another repeater (in a different state) and the
> other coordinator is holding real tight onto the minimum 100 mile rule.
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> Where do we sign up? :-)
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> _Ray_ KBØSTN
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