At 5/8/2006 19:52, you wrote:
>Well, you've gotten me all fired up again on the simplex repeater
>idea. Hearing everything twice isn't a bad idea. In the telephone
>business, we solved a lot of operator problems by service observing
>that consisted of recording a sample of each operator's calls and
>then calling them in and asking them if they'd like to hear what they
>sounded like before we erased the tape. We didn't need to say a word
>and the look on each operator's face as they said "Oh, no!" or "Is
>that what I sound like?' or "Did I say that?" showed it was the best
>training they could ever get.
>
>Paul W2ARK
Simplex repeaters (a.k.a. "parrots") make nice self-diagnostic tools, but I
question their usefulness in emergency situations. In addition to the
halved throughput per minute, collisions between stations using the parrot
can be a problem as well. The collision problem will be worse if the
parrot isn't on a single simplex freq. (for example, taking the place of a
downed duplex repeater) because none of the stations using the parrot will
ever hear each other directly, even if they're right next to each other.
Bob NO6B
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