On 5/3/07, skipp025 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Window filters are nice but not so useful anymore. There's always > some person/site nearby transmitting in the receive section of the > repeaters (input) band with some type of "temp link" or "remote base" > equipment. Many places got real crazy with IRLP and echo link paths.
Don't blame the land-line linking technology for where morons park their transmitters, please. They're totally unrelated. The links themselves and the idiots that set them up wrong, have nothing to do with the overall groups "EchoLink" and "IRLP". And there's a number of us out here who work on these projects who'd really rather they didn't do such stupid stuff. I personally was the "bad guy" who fought to remind people regularly that the hundreds of simplex VHF nodes were illegal in the U.S. -- up until very recently -- but it was like hollering into a hurricane, for all it was worth... Now the FCC allows them under the modifications to the Auxiliary Station rules. But leave the fine folks that work hard on "EchoLink" and "IRLP" projects out of it. We have no control over THEIR radios. THEY are the control operators of their stations, feel free to let them know they're idiots... (Sorry, I'm mildly annoyed that you blame folks like myself who work hard on the core of these projects, and include me in these idiot's behavior. I didn't park their radio next to your repeater input! Talk to them! Leave "EchoLink" and "IRLP" out of it.) Nate WY0X
