I've not been too successful in convincing the various Upstate New
York Amateur Radio Associations that simplex repeaters are the answer
for providing portable repeaters in critical incident response
situations. They are relying on the fixed repeaters to provide
adequate coverage but there are areas where it would be advantageous
to bring the repeater to the incident instead of trying to reach
fixed repeaters with hand-held units from some isolated locations.
There are, of course, coordination problems with portable duplex
repeaters and there is no apparent interest in agreeing on a wide-
split pair of odd frequencies to avoid the conventional-frequency pairs.
What experience has there been with the use of portable cross-band
repeaters to enable hand-held units using a 440 MHz simplex channel
to reach the portable repeater that will relay the message through to
a two-meter fixed repeater?
Paul Yonge, W2ARK
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