You mean to tell us there are so many repeaters on the air in Texas that even the low population rural area repeaters must operate constant ctcss?
CTCSS operational control is a nice idea when there is a need. Otherwise it can and does turn people away quite fast. The saving grace is at least most newer radios have a built in ctcss encoder. Is your repeater coordination group run by a lot of wanna'be radio politician types? Do the coordination people "in power" seem to linger around and rarely change out of office? (ie the same group of people rotate through the same "elected" coordinator positions?) Is there a slight hint of a coordinated fishy smell in your area? :-) cheers, s. > Any new repeater coordination in Texas MUST have CTCSS or DCS access, > no exception. Only older coordinations are grandfathered with open > squelch access. It just does not make any sense to put on a repeater > these days without some kind of access control. > > Unfortunately, some hams equate access control to a 'closed' > system. That kind of thinking needs to go the way of AM phone :-) > 73 - Jim W5ZIT
