Paul:
Out here in southern CA, our emergency group uses a couple of portable 70 cm
rptrs made from handheld radios, a small, cheap controller and mobile
duplexer.
Our repeater bands are full, but the local folks are generally very
cooperative when
the hams are providing emergency comms.
73,
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Yonge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 07 May, 2006 22:20
Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Portable Repeaters
> I've not been too successful in convincing the various Upstate New
> York Amateur Radio Associations that simplex repeaters are the answer
> for providing portable repeaters in critical incident response
> situations. They are relying on the fixed repeaters to provide
> adequate coverage but there are areas where it would be advantageous
> to bring the repeater to the incident instead of trying to reach
> fixed repeaters with hand-held units from some isolated locations.
> There are, of course, coordination problems with portable duplex
> repeaters and there is no apparent interest in agreeing on a wide-
> split pair of odd frequencies to avoid the conventional-frequency pairs.
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> What experience has there been with the use of portable cross-band
> repeaters to enable hand-held units using a 440 MHz simplex channel
> to reach the portable repeater that will relay the message through to
> a two-meter fixed repeater?
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> Paul Yonge, W2ARK
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