Hello all,
FYI, the N6DVA Mototrbo UHF repeater located within the Hollywood
Hills of southern California will be ready for IP linking come New
Years day. If you know of anyone or any group that is currently
operating a Motorola Mototrbo repeater (either UHF or VHF in digital
mode, and soon to be 800-900MHz) within the Amateur Radio spectrum,
and might be interested in linking their repeater with the Hollywood
Hills N6DVA repeater (which covers the Los Angeles area). Please
reply to;
[email protected]
If their repeater partially overlaps the same coverage area, we can
link the repeaters and configure the Mototrbo mobiles / portables for
roaming (allowing our radios to automatically switch channels to the
nearest / loudest repeater in the network). Keep in mind, text
messaging (msg inbox, sent folder, free form messages or canned
messages), telemetry, radio checks, call alert and GPS operation is
supported between linked repeaters (although in the Amateur Radio
world, the Mototrbo GPS feature is kinda useless to us, unless we are
sitting at a computer, attached to a radio, and running the
appropriate expensive proprietary software).
Also, since the Mototrbo Digital repeaters have two time slots
(effectively carrying two voice channel simultaneously) within
12.5KHz of bandwidth, the repeaters may be configured so that one of
the two time slots is dedicated for single site communications, and
the second time slot for wide area (linked repeaters). Or both, one
time slot linked to one wide area network, and the second time slot
to a second wide area network.
Again, if you might know anybody interested in Linking Mototrbo
repeaters, please e-mail me.
Thanks for the bandwidth on this reflector!
Paul Metzger
A Member of the Following Amateur Radio Clubs / Organizations.
N6DVA, BARC, WR6AQR, WA6LA, W6TOI, W6ZE, K6AA, WA6IRC ,220SMA,
SCRRBA, ARES LAX, ARRL, The Deutscher Amateur Radio Club, FISTS
http://www.hamradio-dv.org
