On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Paul Plack wrote: > It's hard to beat 440 for a mobile or portable repeater. Tiny > duplexers work, surplus commercial gear is cheap and plentiful, and > many hams have radios for it. The repeater part is easy on 900 MHz and > 1.2 GHz, but almost nobody has radios for those bands outside a couple > big cities. 73, Paul, AE4KR
There are "small" cities that have a 900MHz presence as well. If you have wide open space and line of sight, 900MHz would be a good choice for this. You would be able to put a radio in each ham's hands that was already on the right channel and setup with no dinking required. 440MHz is another good choice if you want to do it with everyone supplying thier own gear. In my current area, I have no reason to carry a 70cm HT as there is no activity on 70cm despite eight repeaters. In my last town there was quite a bit of 440MHz activity, and still is. 2M is often best used as a simplex net, provided everyone can hear Net Control and Net Control can hear everyone. Radio discipline is a must however. -- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR Disinformation Analyst
