[Repeater-Builder] Community Repeater War Stories (the saga continues)

2008-02-05 Thread skipp025
A community repeater is simply a shared repeater, When the radio traffic is very sporadic, none of the users are aware of the other's existence. In an ideal world... in the real world everyone knows who the other co-channel users are. It works fine until the number of users is

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Community Repeater War Stories

2008-02-04 Thread Steve S. Bosshard (NU5D)
Amen on the LTR trunk. Worst problem was an electrical contractor and a materials hauler. The haul guy had instructions to report to base when he reached the gravel pits. This is unit 10, I am at the gravel pit, where do you want me to go from here? Poor gravel hauler's loudspeaker went

[Repeater-Builder] Community Repeater War Stories

2008-02-04 Thread skipp025
Ahh... that magic Busy Channel Lock-out feature that never seemed to be available, enabled or programmed on. In days of old (when knights were bold) you'd have one or two guys on the frequency with high powered base stations and no desire to share the frequency. After a few butt-head events