Being the chairman on a repeater cordination councel and having many operational UHF repeaters. One could only wish that the band plans were the same as in the country but everyone has to be a little bit differant. We the hams dictate what we want to do and if we all in the country could decide on a band plan that is standard it would make cordination a little more pleasant to deal with. Cal guys on the middle sound like they are getting screwed.
Here in Oregon we are Low out and high in. Well thats nice but when you are offered to combine into a site combining system things have to be done to accomidate the low freqs. It we were all low in and high out it would, one help all of us in the since you would get your recievers away from the 450 stuff and keep the trasmitters all together. You would most likley notice that your repeaters would recieve better. More than half of my repeaters run through combining and when were building the combining we make provisions for hams to have some slots so we can have everthing on the site run through the site antennas. How about a 5 channel ham VHF combiner with all repeaters operational and work great. 73 K7PFJ --- In [email protected], Mike Morris WA6ILQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 03:27 PM 02/23/07, you wrote: > >Hi Mike, > > > >Even more fun is the frequent band openings. One repeater in the > >SF Bay Area will lock up its reverse co-channel So Cal machine. Both > >have no practical time-out timers. Happens more than a few times > >a month... sometimes a few times in one week. > > Yep. All the more reason to require PL'd inputs and make sure that > systems don't have compatible PL tones with the one on the reverse... > > >I can't help it if you guys are "upside down"... :-) > > Naaaah, YOU'RE upside down !!! (Grin) > > Mike > > >cheers, > >s. > > > > > Careful there - NorCal is repeater-input high, and repeater- output > > > low, SoCal is the reverse. Dividing line is the Santa Maria River. > > > There are valid arguments for each method... Makes it lots of fun > > > for the guys in the middle ... they have to pick the frequencies > > > carefully to avoid lockups and a system output capturing someone > > > elses input. >
