To my knowledge there is no cut and dried FCC mandated coordination group for ham bands other then good practice. IF there is a FCC regulation stating that a particular coordination group is responsible for the ham bands I do not know it. That said here in some parts of Florida there are a number of mobile or portable repeaters that have been built but these repeaters are designed for emergency use so they are usually not heard from except in an emergency. If you were to pick a simplex frequency and it was used in emergencies I would not see any problem and don't see where any one has a right to complain( well there are always some ) . Do not depend on others to push for a statewide pair or frequency and instead try pushing a frequency yourself ! People have a habit of forgetting past history when repeaters in an area are down for any number of reasons and that having the ability to continue to communicate is very important. When the power goes down after storms and it stays down for a month and sometimes more these repeaters come in handy. I have a UHF GMRS mobile repeater just for this purpose. While mine is duplex I see a good need for simplex repeaters as the radios are real cheap! Cross Band as well! A lot of the repeaters are on commercial sites that when the generator runs dry so do the repeaters!
Good luck! Steve N4YZA / WQDW656 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Yonge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 1:20 AM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Portable Repeaters > 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 > MIDLAKES REPEATER > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
