Steve et al: The various amateur repeater coordinating groups have no official FCC authority or mandate to control spectrum or issue repeater pairs. As a practical matter, however, the FCC will almost always support a coordinated repeater over a non-coordinated one in matters of interference. This is in keeping with the FCC's mandate to prevent interference. Fortunately, the vast majority of hams are a cooperative lot and generally work with their local coordination group to keep repeaters from causing interference to each other.
I have a portable UHF repeater on GMRS and one in the ham band and have used them where I live. So far, so good and no problems. By and large, the system works quite well. 73, Dick W1NMZ WPVY245 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: 08 May, 2006 08:04 Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Portable Repeaters > 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 <*> 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/
