Yes, they do - and more than ever, they seem to have conversations with themselves - more than they used to even when ACC made Repeater controllers.
"Good evening. Over looking the valley from Eleven hundred feet this is the WZ7WXYZ Repeater. The time is eight fifty five on twelve twenty. A R E S Net tonight at seven o'clock P M. Club meeting Friday night at seven thirty P M. The temperature is forty six degrees. The wind is twenty two miles an hour." And that's just the typical initial ID (after first key-up after a no-activity period.) Wait until it's time for any "pending" IDs and any 10-minute IDs for more important information that the users are breathlessly waiting to hear. Give me a quick repeater callsign (don't even need /R or /RPT any more) in 20WPM CW at a low level that you can talk over, if you need to. ANY day....... Anyone who thinks CW is dead never listened to HF in the last couple months to the ARRL CW SS contest, the CQWW DX CW Contest, or to the recent 5A7A DXpedition to Libya. Somebody(s) are working lots of CW (the CW bands were FULL, day and night!) You had to see it to believe it - it was most encouraging to see. LJ -----Original Message----- >From: VE3ID <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 15, 2006 7:09 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] FYI: FCC officially issues R&O dropping code >requirement today > >And at the same time, we can train them to lubricate the dynamotors that >provide B+ to their rigs? (HT to you G's) > >Gentlemen, it is time to move on. Even repeaters have voice ID nowadays. > >73 >Nigel, >ve3id/g4ajq > > > > > >STeve Andre' wrote: >> >> And the start of another. >> >> It is entirely possible to *increase* the number of CW using hams >> because of this. It's possible to snare folks into the hobby, and >> then, just when they think they're secure in the lack of a need >> to ever learn code-- >> >> ...They find something that uses it, and the spark of a reason as >> to why it might be a good idea to learn it ignites... >> >> The rest of this is up to us, however. We need to welcome these >> changes and then find ways to hook them onto CW and all the >> other wonderful modes we have. It IS possible. >> >> All is takes is imagination on our parts. >> >> --STeve Andre' >> wb8wsf en82 >> >> On Friday 15 December 2006 21:46, Bob M. wrote: >> > Oh well, the end of an era. Boo-Hiss. >> > >> > Bob M. >> > ====== >> > --- Joe Montierth <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:skyislandpage%40yahoo.com>> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269012A1.pdf >> <http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-269012A1.pdf> >> > >> > > Techs get tech+ privs, code test gone for general >> > > and >> > > extra. >> > > >> > > Joe >> > >> > __________________________________________________ >> > Do You Yahoo!? >> > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >> > http://mail.yahoo.com <http://mail.yahoo.com> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Yahoo! Groups Links >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > >-- >Nigel Johnson >MSc., MIEEE, MCSE >VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU > >http://nigel.homelinux.net >http://va3mcu.ham-radio-op.net > >You can reach me by voice on Skype: TILBURY2591 > >If time travel ever will be possible, it already is. Ask me again yesterday > >This e-mail is not and cannot, by its nature, be confidential. En route from >me to you, it will pass across the public Internet, easily readable by any >number of system administrators along the way. > >
