Eric Harrison wrote: > The repeater is a motorola micor station lo-band repeater retuned to > the 6 meter band running 100 watts. The 1.7 mhz is the new aloted band > plan split for 6 meter band in the US.
As others have mentioned, there's nothing that makes a particular repeater split a "U.S. wide" thing. Here in Colorado, we have very few 6m repeaters, but we do have both 1.0 MHz and 1.7 MHz split systems on-air. I know our 1.0 split system is coordinated, and I assume the 1.7 is also. The one thing you might keep in mind is that even though 1.7 is becoming popular, many rigs will "default" to 1.0, meaning you've placed a *small* but annoying barrier between your users (who want to be lazy and hit the offset button on modern rigs and be done with it -- hell, half of them may not even know what an "offset" really is), and your repeater. In other words, "standards" on paper also have to be weighted against the "standards" built into the user radios. Just a thought. Frankly, on 6m -- your user-base is probably smarter than the average bear, and can handle it. But I mention it out of a fear that you'll have complaints and/or less users if you go with the wider split. You're correct, of course -- it's easier to duplex the wider split. It's also pretty easy to build a split-site machine for the "standard" split and not even have to run a duplexer... Nate WY0X
