I think this is kind of where you live thing if you lived in the Northern Californian Bay Area you would see a need for more pairs and narrow banding. We have repeaters to close together in frequency so that they become unusable at times. Area is also going with digital comms and there are no pairs left in VHF to do this with. To make matters a little worse our 70 CM repeaters were shut down due to alleged interefence wit the primary user of the spectrum Public service users waste spectrum always have always will, we use VHF for most public saftey and it works well in this county. They are of course talking about a multi million dollar upgrade to APCO 25 and the interoperabilty need. Some simple and cost effective solutions out there but no it will not go that way. As fire and police use VHF a simple radio re-reprogram would fix it with some mutual aid channels in use, but not likely to go that way
--- On Fri, 10/2/09, skipp025 <[email protected]> wrote: From: skipp025 <[email protected]> Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: ARRL Approves Study Committee to Research & Develop Plan for Narrowband Channel Spacing To: [email protected] Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 9:01 AM I would say BS to the "need more pairs in the commercial and public safety world". In the commercial world, the available spectrum is not smartly used and there is much gross waste of resources. Public Safety "Empire Builders" scream for independent radio systems, then scream for interoperability using different formats/modes. We see a different type of wasted spectrum and materials in a lot of the Public Safety World. It's all pretty well messed up... s. > "Chuck Kelsey" <wb2...@...> wrote: > I don't see that there is a true NEED for more > pairs in amateur service. > There IS a need in the commercial/public safety > world. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
