At 10/13/2007 15:23, you wrote: >compliant analog repeater is certainly 'eligible' for such a letter. What >amazes me more is the IRLP node in Portland that is UHF linked to a 146.520 >remote base on a commercial tower that pretty much hoses the national >simplex frequency for the entire metro area.
We had something similar show up here in SoCal on 223.50 during FD. It was the impetus for a major 220 MHz bandplan revision here, as there was no dedicated spectrum in the old bandplan for simplex internet links, hence 223.50 was just as good as any other simplex frequency for that use. Now it isn't, as Echolink & IRLP have a legitimate "home" here. Bob NO6B
