At 02:24 9/30/2008, Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote: >Why not run more repeater offset ? The further away you >are the more isolation you have - and it's free. > >Here in SoCal we have a special portable 2m repeater pair >coordinated - it's 144.93 out, and 147.585 in. That's over >2.5 mhz of offset, and you can get just over 3 mhz if you >use 147.99 as your input.
This brings up a very interesting point. IN A GENUINE EMERGENCY, why not run a huge split, say 145.000 input, 175.000 output. I realize the output is out of band, but MARS mods are widely available, and in an emergency, out-of-band operation is permitted, right? One would want to preselect a frequency where interference with other emergency use is least likely, I also realize that not all HTs have a wide-band receive capability, but lots do. -- Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE gomberg1 at wcf dot com All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html -----------------------------------------------------------------
