skipp025 wrote: > 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?
Not sure about Texas, but here anyway -- the requirement is there that the repeater must at least HAVE the ability to switch on CTCSS, and the coordination is based on the CTCSS being active, as it relates to co-channel interference. Any organization can choose to turn off their CTCSS decoder, but the repeater must be CAPABLE of it, to gain a new coordination, generally. > 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. If CTCSS is still "turning people away" after almost 40 years of it being "out there" and in heavy use for at least 30 years, perhaps they need to be. :-) > 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? Ahh yes, the evil repeater coordinator thread needs to get going again, definitely. Demonizing coordinators is a favorite past-time of all. Grab the popcorn and pull up a chair! (Not withstanding that it's obvious that Texas has... what's the politically correct term here? "Issues." Lawsuits, egos, etc... all going on down in the great state of Texas. No big surprise there.) The thread that doesn't start up often is the thread pointing out that 99.999999% of repeater owners couldn't be "bothered" to volunteer to work on a coordination body, if you asked them. Demonizing coordinators doesn't get anyone anywhere. Volunteers needed. Non-insane, smart-thinking volunteers, needed even more badly. > :-) Double :-) :-) Nate
