That's true, John. but it was the national simplex calling frequency BEFORE repeaters were invented. It just happens to lie in an island in the middle of the subbands.
73, Mike WM4B From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of JOHN MACKEY Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 3:05 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Closed Repeaters ------ Original Message ------ Received: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:55:42 AM PDT To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com> > >Today if someone is using the output of a repeater frequency for a simplex > >conversation and someone else wanted to use the repeater then there would > >be interference to the conversation that was first on that > >frequency. Could this be considered malicious interference? Times like this it is interesting to point out the best known simplex freq of 146.52 MHz is in the repeater sub-band and NOT the simplex sub-band!!