On Dec 25, 2007, at 11:50 AM, Paul Plack wrote: > Keith, we're also stuck with band-planning on other bands which > didn't anticipate the popularity of FM repeaters. 2m is even more > screwed up. Why have only 600 kHz offset, when it could have easily > been double that? Duplexers would have been smaller, less expensive, > worked better, etc.
I think 2m is screwed up mostly because manufacturers keep making radios that are virtually loss-leaders for the band. When you can buy a 2m 50W mobile for right around $150, and it's $400 to get into a dual-bander... well, do the math. I think the manufacturers are just as responsible for the overcrowding of VHF as anything. Perhaps they should stop doing ultra-cheap VHF rigs and start doing cheap UHF only rigs. Or 220. Or 900. Or 1.2 GHz. (Yeah, see how silly that sounds? They're not going to.) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
