On Dec 26, 2007, at 5:39 PM, JOHN MACKEY wrote: > Simply put, these people don't play nice. They often make their > gain by > character assination, and have a lengthy record seen by several > people.
Too bad we can't vote 'em off the island, eh? :-) > The squelching problem is repeater receivers blowing squelch noise > for on a > regular basis for months, I call that serious! The audio has often > sounded > poor to bad in the past, I call that cosmetic. Yep. > I don't chose to talk on the repeaters. Once, about years ago I > allowed my > son to talk on their repeater > using my callsign with me there as the control op. He was having a > plesant > conversation with someone there > and the system was then shut down. The repeater owner statements > made it > clear he did not like a youngster using > their repeater. That is hardly what I call good amateur practice. Lovely people. > The last time I was in Denver, I had no problem finding inactive 2 > meter > repeaters to talk to > NP4AI on. LOL. You know Brad, eh? He's an interesting guy. He suffers from the design problem in the Icom 706... he forgets to turn his mic gain back down to something reasonable when switching from SSB to FM. Heh. Sounds awful until someone reminds him. I'm so glad the FT-857D designers paid attention and didn't design in the same problem in Yaesu's all-band/all-mode contender. (GRIN) As far as repeater activity -- it's "okay" but there's definitely nights when things are quiet around here. Other nights, various systems are all busy at the same time. The linked VHF repeaters in our club get used for Nets almost every night of the week, which is nice to hear... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
