In anticipation of needing the liaison contacts, I joined up with
nearly every association in Upstate New York so I can enlist their
suggestions as to what channels are used locally and can try to avoid
them. Thanks.
Paul
On May 8, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Ronny Julian wrote:
> Pick a clear pair and go for it. The FCC is the only authority
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> a word to say in the end. If you do interfere with someone just
> work it
> out like the ladies and gentlemen we are supposed to be.
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>> 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.
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>> 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?
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>> Paul Yonge, W2ARK
>> MIDLAKES REPEATER
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