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KB2VXA > RSGB 29.06.07 15:35l 37 Lines 1524 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: ZL1ABS > repeater farce
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From: KB2VXA@NJ2AR.#CNJ.NJ.USA.NOAM
To : RSGB@WW
Hi Michael and all,
Here's a nice guideline that should satisfy. The ARRL does not hold
repeater licenses, that's an individual thing so there are many private
owners and with club repeaters there's a trustee whose callsign is
usually that of the repeater and in some cases the club's callsign. The
repeater ID may be MCW or voice every ten minutes while in operation, it
may or may not ID when idle. If so equipped the controller may make voice
announcements periodically along with an ID and things like time and
temperature are on demand using standard DTMF codes. Status is also on
demand, however when running on backup power it may signal by other means
such as a different courtesy tone at the end of each transmission. This
way users are aware and use the repeater sparingly.
IMO, if the RSGB wants to be stuffy about it, their loss, not ours. We do
have our limits, while courtesy tones have been frogs, steam whistles and
the like one repeater owner some years ago went way overboard with risqe
announcements, complaints put a stop to the midnight antics of Tarzan and
Jane. Still I liked the frog from Brooklyn NY. (;->)
73 de Warren
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