Wade Lake wrote: > I worked in the radio biz for years. I was involved in setting up > many a commercial repeater and even though it is good practice to use DCS or > CTCSS, I don't recall the FCC licenses restricting carrier access. That > goes double for the public safety repeaters (police and such) They almost > never had CTCSS or the like. The CTCSS/DCS code was up to the operator. We > had to educate lots of people as to why they needed CTCSS or DCS on their > machines when someone new popped up on their channel and keyed their machine > as well as their own. I know that we never coordinated the PL's, we always > ended up monitoring the licensed channel to coordinate one that would work > with the existing machines on the channel in our area. I live in a > semi-rural area though, perhaps you are in a populous area? In larger > cities the FCC may have such restrictions. Or maybe the rules have changed > in the last 10 years... I may be as high as a kite too but thats the way I > remember it. > > My 2 cents, > > Wade - KR7K
A company near here had a UHF CSQ repeater back around 1980-81 when I was working on their radios. Strange that all the radios had tone, but I digress. They got told to put it in tone or shut it down in the mid 80's sometime. It was in tone for a while, then I think it just went away... -- Jim Barbour WD8CHL Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/