Nate, I'll summarize a way-too-long dissertation I bored the list with the other night...
(1) Allow would-be repeater-builders to submit joint applications to share a frequency pair by time-of-day, day-of-week, or whatever other scheme they propose. (2) Announce the change in policy, and allow those already on the waiting list to choose partners for a pair-share scheme (3) Prioritize shared applications above individual ones on the waiting list (4) Turn existing coordinations in to the pool at any change of licensee (or owner, if different) If cooperation will help you get a pair, that's when it's most likely to happen. If you break the long-held expectation that a ham repeater coordination is grandfathered forever, for the holder to hand off to a friend, be snarfed up by a coordinator or be sold along with the hardware to the highest bidder, you'll eventually eliminate the waiting list. Do that, and you'll also reduce corruption among coordinators. The competition of which you speak will then return to 75m SSB, its traditional and proper home. I'm not holding my breath! 73, Paul, AE4KR ----- Original Message ----- From: Nate Duehr To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] UHF duplexers and preamps > ...there will ALWAYS be the "I can do it better" crowd owning and > operating repeaters. You don't like how their systems sound, so you > get on a waiting list to show them you can "do it better". How we > break this cycle of disfunction, I don't know... > Anyone reading along have any ideas on how to stop this madness?
