Steve -
Thanks for a lot of good suggestions and comments.
Paul
On May 8, 2006, at 11:04 AM, Stephen Rice wrote:
> 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
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