[GreenKeys] Repeater - Try again

[Bob Camp]

Hi,

My assumption is that if we ran a repeater we would have to set it up 
under the message forwarding system part of the regulations. What ever 
we do has to be legal. The other section that might be used is the 
remote controlled digital station rules. The result would behave like a 
repeater, but would store enough of the message or remote enough to fit 
in under the rules.

	Take Care!

		Bob Camp
		KB8TQ


On Apr 27, 2004, at 11:16 PM, Gary Chatters wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Bob Camp wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What we need more than anything else is activity on the air. Without
>> activity there's not a lot of point in all this.
>
> A very good point.  The discussion of SELCAL has been interesting, but 
> the
> thing I am looking for is a frequency that I can set my receiver to and
> expect to hear some occasional activity.  Either a machine with 
> autostart
> or a computer storing to file would work for monitoring.  Would there 
> be
> so much activity that SELCAL would really be needed?
>
> How many people on this list could do this right now?  I can't, but it
> should take too much effort to set up.
>
> What band should be use?.  Some of this discussion was about how to
> encourage more activity on 80 or 40.  Would either of these bands be
> appropriate?  How about 30m?
>
>
>  Repeaters are a good
>> way to get a lot of activity on a single channel.
>>
>> So back to the rules and regs. Can we set this up as a remotely
>> controlled digital station?
>
>
> Repeaters (simultaneous retransmission on a different frequency) are 
> only
> allowed on 10m and up.  Could this be a message forwarding system?
>
>
>  What I would propose would be a group of
>> receiver sites around the country. Each one would feed data to the
>> repeater transmitter. Voting the various receiver sites and that stuff
>> is pretty straight forward (but not necessarily easy).
>
> An interesting idea.  I have been thinking of just connecting a TU to a
> computer with a telnet server.  Users could connect and watch activity 
> on
> the channel from the remote receive site.
>
> Gary
>
>
>
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