If you do have your tent set up on public property, you would not care who enters it? I value my life, how about you? Or in this case, my license.
This stuff about holding a frequency hostage... You are certainly welcome to use any frequency that a repeater uses, just not be repeated through it. If the repeater is deemed limited access, you must ask for permission to use it. If you have a closed repeater or know of someone that does, why is it closed? It is monetary, or a decision to limit access to a group of friends? Most I know of, are a group of friends. John At 09:14 AM 7/26/2009, you wrote: >The point has been made that a closed repeater (actually any >repeater) is private property and others have no right to utilize >it. I would agree to that premise except for the fact that the >repeater utilizes PUBLIC spectrum. > >The analogy would be: I have a large tent that I like to set up on >my property. If I take that same tent and permanently set it up in >a public park and, I keep others from entering my tent, I am using >PUBLIC property for my own, exclusive use. Would that set well with >most of you? > >I have a closed repeater that has PUBLIC spectrum coordinated for >it. That has the effect of allocating that PUBLIC asset for my exclusive use. > >Why should a repeater be different than the tent? > > > >------------------------------------ > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
