[FedCom] Civil Air Patrol Transition to New Frequencies

[Ken]

An "'official' source" indicates the changeover will take place June/July 
2007 time frame (I'd assume that's when the repeater change outs are going 
to happen).  Repeaters will increase from 457 to 545 with contracts to be 
award shortly for the new installations.

Interestingly the same "source" also indicates that CAP purchased 3,000 
Intrasquad (IRS) Radios (396-399 mhz radios) & 300 VHF-NFM Portable Radios 
back in 2003.

Should prove to be interesting as far as how often P25/digital will be used 
versus NFM.
Also of course will be the active monitoring challenge to determine which 
repeater site has a specific CTCSS tone assigned for that site.  Will CAP 
opted to use a different CTCSS input tone than the output tone for each 
repeater?  Will the common CTCSS 100.0 still be in use or will that change?

BTW has anyone seen any CAP units will Nextels yet?

Ken