Nate Duehr wrote: >> <---By the way Skip, I meant to ask if you're inferring something >> about those of us whom are 1st person familiar with SoCal repeater & >> remote base design? > > What, massive multi-State linking that ties up huge swaths of the spectrum > for a single two-person QSO, deliberately ignoring the "use only the > power/spectrum you need to make the contact" rules? <snip for brevity> > Okay so ... who's in... coast-to-coast, via RF... the Route 66 repeater > system! > > (Note I carefully picked a route too far south to participate in. LOL!) >
ROFL! Ya know, a group in Ohio had a multi-state linked system for a while, piggybacked onto someone's microwave system. It only got used by truckdrivers rachet-jawin' just like they were on 27.125. It's gone now. Another guy had several 440 rptrs RF-linked along the Lake...same result. It went away. The individual machines are still there, just not linked anymore. They're actually usable now. -- Jim Barbour WD8CHL
