Nate, the simple answer to your question is that a remote repeater may or may not be on the link, and one thing you would need to do is bring it on link if you need to talk to someone on it. Multiple repeaters on a link system do not always need to be on link, as local conversations do not need to be propagated up and down the link.
A second reason to control a remote repeater is to allow control of the remote base on that repeater. We had a linked repeater with remote base on top of a mountain here in New Mexico overlooking much of west Texas, and we had users from points west regularly accessing our remote base to talk to repeaters and simplex stations there. These were the two main reasons we needed to control a remote repeater. Alan modified an early version of his two port controller to allow site prefixing so that it was compatible with the Cactus intertie. He called it the 'Condor' mod, after the Condor connection on 220 that required remote repeater control. 73 - Jim W5ZIT -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 18 May 2007 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Macro & Prefix formats for multi site programming I've asked three times now what the heck any user needs to control on a remote repeater, and no one has answered that question. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X ________________________________________________________________________ Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.
