I agree, that's the political side of the problem. I don't see that there is a true NEED for more pairs in amateur service. There IS a need in the commercial/public safety world.
Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cort Buffington" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] ARRL Approves Study Committee to Research & Develop Plan for Narrowband Channel Spacing To wrap this around to repeaters.... Where I live, which is admittedly not, say, California... there isn't a real spectrum problem on any of the FM repeater bands (if I may use such a term). There is a slight problem in some areas with the so-called "paper repeaters", but that's not a reason to narrow-band. It might be a reason to actually give coordination to those who really will keep a repeater up and operational, but not to narrow-band. Is there a reason to do this other than creating more channels? And how many places desperately need the channels -- as in, even if the repeater pairs are all full, are the repeaters being used? Just a thought... 73 DE N0MJS ------------------------------------ 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/
