The people in charge of the repeater 25 kHz away (and on the opposite split) DID contact the guy in charge of the over-deviating repeater. He turned down some of the audio sources, again with no test equipment, but the lack of pre-emphasis/limiting/low-pass-filtering in the transmitter still exists, and signals with a high noise level wreak havoc.
Definitely time to "bump it up a notch" by going to the coordinating body to get some pressure put on this guy. He was into the hard rock stuff in the 80s and his hearing has been poor since then. Bob M. ====== --- On Tue, 9/16/08, skipp025 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: skipp025 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Repeater Audio War Stories (Story #741) > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 12:43 PM > > Case in point... > ......... > Depending on how realistic the repeater owner/op is... you > could offer to help. In the case of hard-nose Alpha Hotel > types... you might then set out on a paper-work trip that > ends up involving the local coordination group leading > through > to the FCC. Takes time but it does work in some cases.... > > > A deviation scope shows peaks out to 7 kHz, but a > spectrum > > analyzer shows a much wider bandwidth, almost all of > which > > is high-frequency noise from marginally weak signals > that gets > > amplified way out of proportion to the actual voice > audio. > > You are only concerned with the emissions outside the > normal > band-width for the standard mode (FM). > > > You do know that's malicious interference, > > Not until you contact the owner, ask the proper questions > and > present the situation for his or her response. > > > and he can be shut down? It's been done here! > > Sure, if you do the proper homework first. The owner might > be > ignorant and actually appreciate and welcome a second > source > of technical assistance. For Step-1, be nice and contact > the repeater owner with a hello and a smile on your face. > > cheers, > s.
