At 5/1/2007 14:24, you wrote: >Hello all. I help to maintain the repeaters of the ham club I belong to >and had a discussion with one of our rather older crusty member concerning >the three minute timeout we have on our repeaters. On one occasion after >he timeout one of our repeaters for about the third time (he is long >winded) I said something like "I wish I could extend the timeout but the >FCC wants the three minute time out on repeaters". He answer back that it >is not a FCC regulation but a standard that develop over the years to >prevent someone from being too longwinded on a repeater like himself.
Correct. The 3-minute rule does NOT require a time-out timer, but rather a control link "watchdog" timer that AFAIK nobody uses. Bob NO6B
