On 3/6/07, skipp025 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alas... A lot of the time I turn most of it off. Whiz-bang audio > playback drives many good local repeater people crazy/away. The > crowd that shows up to hear the funny stuff very often is a > "different kind of repeater user". Same thing happens with IRLP > and Echolink operation.
I was with ya, right up until you claimed that linking technology should be compared to dorky recordings of The Three Stooges. I agree WAV file sound effects, especially if you have to PAY to add them to a repeater, are useless, and make the system sound "hammy". IRLP and EchoLink, however... are just linking technologies... they tend to attract just about EVERYONE, twits included... you take the good with the bad in that case. [Sarcasm on...] The only people I've noticed IRLP or EchoLink driving away -- are people who haven't had a measurable pulse since around 1968. We keep a couple "quiet" repeaters for those folks. Unfortunately some of our quietest machines are on UHF, and many of them feel that band is out of their technical reach, since their mono-band VHF rig without CTCSS has been operating "so well for all these years". And UHF is so high up there anyway, perhaps they might find it difficult to tune an antenna for that band... [Sarcasm off...] Nate WY0X
