Paul Plack wrote: > Nate, > > If you leave the repeater on all day, but block calls from anyone but a > few friends, what has changed? Someone throwing out his callsign will > still find the room empty.
Well, they could always hit and hold the "EMR" (probably originally meant to be "Emergency" mode, but the lawyers at Icom made sure it never says that ANYWHERE in the manuals, that I've found yet...) button and FORCE all the sand-baggers to listen. (Of course, if this feature gets over-used, people will just turn off their radios... but it even forces listening rigs to go to half volume if they're currently set below that threshold.) ;-) Annoying little feature if used inappropriately, eh? Nate WY0X
