Sky Command does not do any control on 2 meters. This aspect of the rules has not changed. What did change is that an auxiliary link can now be used on 2 meters. This makes it possible to link into a 2 meter repeater in-band without violating the rules. I think that rule discussion is not permitted on this list, and apologize for this response. But a common misconception about Sky Command is that it does some control on 2 meters. In fact, it only uses the 2 meter band to transmit the receive audio from the remote installation.
73 - Jim W5ZIT -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 7:04 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Linking question What you are doing is a "remote base" The whole skycommand deal was over remote control on 2m and doesn't apply to what you are doing. William Delbert Ellis wrote: > > > Howdy, New to this group today. > I am the control operator for two of our ham club repeaters. > A 2m Motorola and 70cm Motorola. > We had them next to each other hard wired linked with antennas on a > very tall commercial > tower in Austin. The UHF antenna was turned to dust by a > lightning strike. The machine survived however the cost of a > tower climb exceeds our cub funds so I have moved and > coordinated the UHF machine 20 miles west to my home QTH > tower. This works out nice as I am on a big hill and cover > the local state park very well. I would like to link the two > together by installing a 2m mobile rig on the UHF controller > "linking radio" I/O and link it to the VHF machine. > This would take the audio out of the UHF machine and > transmit it on the mobile rig to the input of the VHF > machine 20 miles east via a small 2m yagi. The RX audio on > the 2m mobile rig would then be transmitted out on the UHF > machine. This is all easy to do with the controller I have. > The question is this legal now on the ham bands? I think up > until early this year you could only link with UHF until the > FCC changed the law enabling the Kenwood "sky command" to be > legal on 2m thus allowing what I am planning. What are the > group members thoughts on this? > Thanks, > Bill N5ZTW Central Texas. > > -- Jay Urish CCNA Network Engineer Home)972-691-0125 Cell)972-965-6229 ________________________________________________________________________ Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.
