"If you ever install anything that looks this HamSexy at a > commercial radio site, and don't keep the kiddie-show to your back-yard > repeater, I'm personally coming to your house to kick your ass."
Sorry to burst the bubble. Really sorry. Just because someone wears a MOTOROLA shirt doesn't mean a thing, nor should it. Get a grip here fellas. WE ALL know that. There are plenty of MONKEYS walkin' around thinking their ..don't stink because they are in the 'business'. And those of you who are HONEST know this. That does not excuse poor practices, unadvised practices, and out and out stupidity, whether by a 'HAM' or a 'PRO'. But there are plenty of amateur repeaters out there that are well engineered and perform as such. Having access to a FREE rack that has a picture of 'Barney' or another favorite 'kiddie-show' character shows a person, a builder, or group, may be frugal or just lucky..that's it. These racks are usually located in a dark, scary room where someone thought better of those in their building and did NOT install a toilet. So who cares what the RACK looks like? I dare you to tell me what is inside that rack may be any more inferior to what is in your designer cabinet. How would you know anyway? Site 'owners' or 'moderators' or whatever you want to call them have the right to question what shares space in their house and may want to look inside at the engineering..fine. But to simply assume based on aesthetics that one is 'cleaner' than another is preposterous. Here in Florida no one that I know is allowed to use 'amateur grade' ( for the lack of a better term ) antennas on a roof top due to nature of our annual tropical storm season. You don't see many Ringos here reported flying around in a hurricane. -Mike From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of wd8chl Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 11:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Ham installation quality/non-quality Nate Duehr wrote: We could discuss how utterly > useless ham radio is these days, or my favorite point recently that > anyone with a satellite dish, ability to aim it, and an IP-based > service, can do more communications "good" in a disaster area with that > IP, an Asterisk box, and some cordless phones to hand to the real > emergency services folks... Until the sat fills up and is overloaded-which usually only takes a dozen or so calls, if that. > > I never bashed ALL hams. I bashed hams who install CRAP repeaters made > out of RG-58 jumpers, smashed hardline, on frequencies not authorized by > the head site manager, with cheap ham-grade antennas at 120', a mobile > duplexer, an open cabinet, no grounding other than a polyphaser, and a > power supply that looks like it came out of someone's junk box to run > their Heathkit. > > Please - get a grip on reality. That type of installation makes us ALL > look bad, and you know it. And if you're touchy about it because you > personally have such an installation, get it down off the commercial > site and put it in your backyard where it won't be a mess for others to > deal with. > Agreed-I know of one multiple tower owner who won't allow ham repeaters on his towers-at least not the transmit side-for just that reason. Oh, he is a ham himself. But there is also even more just-as-crappy commercial installs too-especially RG-58 jumpers on repeaters...and lack of grounds... __________ NOD32 4051 (20090504) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
