On Dec 26, 2009, at 9:53 PM, railtrailbiker wrote: > Hi: > > Are there any current or former repeater owners/operators out there who have > recently taken a repeater off the air on a permanent basis? > > If so, what were your reasons? > > Tony
Yes, Here's the stories... The club had the 447.150 and 447.200 UHF pairs in the 80's and 90's, and put both repeaters through a single-duplexer/antenna system to save on site tower space. 447.150 was voice, 447.200 was a 9600 baud digital-regenerative Packet data repeater. We also had two ports on a site-combiner and receive-splitter at a another site (we still "own" the 2nd port) with 145.145 as a voice repeater, and 145.385 as a 1200 baud digital regenerative Packet data repeater. As Packet activity died down in the early 2000's, the club initially converted the Packet repeaters to "whatever data you want to try" including APRS (to avoid the "hidden node" syndrome common on simplex-based data networks), and then eventually (as we realized only a very small percentage of members were actually using the systems), focused the club's resources and efforts on the other repeaters, and released the pairs back to our local Coordination body for the digital regen repeaters and took the repeaters off-air. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com http://facebook.com/denverpilot http://twitter.com/denverpilot
