--- In [email protected], Bob Dengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 6/27/2007 12:53 PM, you wrote: > >Yep. I didn't see what that rule change happened, but I know it did. > > > >I also know that there was an FCC-issued moratorium on new repeaters in > >1985, but I never found and don't recall how long that lasted. I think > > I never heard of any such "moraturium", & around that time I was placing > several new systems on the air. > > Bob NO6B
I don't know the exact dates but it was in effect in 1978 when I was first coordinated. Since Bob WB6JPI had a number of repeater "rent-a-calls" he was the absentee trustee for my repeater (WR6 "A" "Micro" "computer") until the moratorium was lifted. If I remember correctly the moratorium was put in place because the repeater regulations were being rewritten at the time. I think the FCC had finally gotten tired of looking at the stick figure drawings of controller operators with their hands on the "big red switch". 73's Skip WB6YMH
