At 5/8/2006 05:51 PM, you wrote:
>We can't even get real emergency groups around here to use STANDARD
>OFFSET UHF repeaters most of the time.
>
>Color me VERY skeptical that any more than a few people will ever truly
>use a wide-split portable VHF repeater in a true emergency.
>
>Overloaded, stressed out people, don't respond well to "dig out your
>manual and figure out how to program in a 2.655 split repeater". And a
>large number of people wouldn't or couldn't -- sad, but true.
I can't speak for emergency groups/situations, but for public service
events the wide-split 2 meter repeater works very well. It does take some
pre-event planning & training, but at least now we have a few dozen
well-trained operators with the portable repeater pair still programmed in
their HTs.
My feeling is that if the EmComm groups were as well trained & prepared,
the in-band odd-split repeater would work as well for them.
Bob NO6B
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