At 11:22 PM 11/21/2007, you wrote:
Here it is mostly the opposite. People will use a club owned,
linked, high level, wide coverage system before using a low level
machine. Of the 2m low level machines, only one or two see limited
use. There are many UHF machines in the area, but they see almost no use.
I offer this only for consideration ...
Here, many people do not use the large linked system because they do
not want quite so large a "footprint" for their conversation.
If I want to talk to a guy who is in the next town, I don't
necessarily need half the state listening in. No need to tie up their air time.
So - most folks seem to use their "local" repeater.
Larry
N5WLW
