Hi There is a 2-M VHF repeater in Central England (UK), that uses morse ident to fire back the average S-meter value to the user, of their received signal. As it is usally the user's location and kit that will be "weak" or "strong".... the user use lets the repeater time out, and the the repeater ident in morse and the S meter value then follows....
OH, in the UK we have to get state site clearance, and specific permission of each and every repeater we put on the air. John S. Bone, MBEng, BSc Hons (H) Tel: 00 44 (0)1525 217383 (H) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile Tel: (00 44) 77 89 35 86 86 (personal) CallSign: G7OOE -----Original Message----- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Pugh Sent: 17 December 2007 05:19 To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Remote power monitoring Mike Besemer (WM4B) wrote: > Eric, > > In a perfect world, I’d love to both hear specific values AND be alerted > if values drifted out-of-bounds. The idea of remote monitoring came > about because we have several users who swear ‘the repeater is weak > today’, but whenever I go check it, inevitably it’s just fine. I’d love > to be able to punch up the forward and reflected power when one of these > jokers catches me on the air, just to show them that nothing has > changed. (Of course, that still wouldn’t convince them… but at least > I’d get a laugh… AND some piece of mind that everything was okay.) Why spend the money? Just wrote a macro that, when called, says something like "75 watts forward, 1 watt reflected" Then you can say, "see it's all in your head". I knew a guy years ago that ran a repeater who's users wanted an autopatch on the repeater. He rigged up a macro that sent a dial tone, followed by a busy signal when accessed. The users never knew the difference! Just an idea... 73 :-) Mike KA4MKG Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
