Then you need to educate that board member, maybe the entire board. This is a very common problem. Board members typically are not in tune with regulatory issues and operational requirements. And some board members can be very stubborn about their "authority." You might want to get in contact with your County or State health department for some additional educational assistance.
Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: "kc8fwd" <kc8...@hotmail.com> To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 3:17 AM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Repeaters and Water Towers > This is a two meter repeater.This town is so small the water board run by > the town has one employee to do all work.The County gave the club 14,000 > Dollars to buy everything new.We have everything new.One guy in the club > said he knew how to run and hook up a repeater and had everything all > messed up repeater was outputting 10 watts when it will do 50 watts > continuous it is a Icom FR-3000 said the controller was fried and all I > did was reset it and reprogram it a cat 1000.Antenna had over a 3:1 swr > and he said it was fine I took antenna down is a Hustler and he tightened > the clamp so tight the worm clamp busted.I fixed the antenna and all is > well.We went to a town council meeting and one council member brought up > the homeland security thing and that was all it took. 73 de Mike KC8FWD >
