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- From: pschleck@cwis.unomaha.edu (Paul W Schleck KD3FU)
- Subject: Repeater Warz (was Re: 430mhz band ...)
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 04:56:32 GMT
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- This has been an interesting thread, but I suspect that both sides in
- their extreme views are missing the main ideas of each viewpoint.
-
- "As a licensee and station operator, I have absolute say over who
- operates my equipment."
-
- Yes, you do, without question. If you put a repeater on a frequency,
- there is no obligation to retransmit all signals that appear on your
- input channel. If you offer it as an "open" repeater, there is an
- expectation to provide it as a service, but doing otherwise will only
- affect your public image (and possibly the status of your coordination,
- if the repeater pair was granted on condition of your service being
- "open").
-
- "As the recipient of one or more coordinated frequencies, I own the
- channels."
-
- Whoa, not quite. Coordination is an instrument of interference
- prevention/reduction, NOT an assignment of ownership. Having a
- coordinated repeater does not necessarily give you control over
- everything that is transmitted on your coordinated frequencies within
- line-of-sight range (usually 75-80 miles).
-
- I agree that as repeater pairs fill up, this is likely to become a very
- controversial issue. The likely solution (I know of at least one
- east-coast coordinator that is considering this) is to use automated
- monitoring tools to gather usage statistics on all coordinated repeaters
- and make low-usage (or substantially non-conflicting in the time-domain)
- pairs or triplets of repeaters share a channel, with the use of PL
- and/or directional/notched antenna arrays.
-
- A repeater pair assignment CANNOT, for the sake of the state-of-the-art,
- be a transfer of ownership, in perpetutity, of radio frequencies
- over a wide geographic area. Coordinating bodies made the mistake of
- unconditionally assigning channels in "unwanted" frequency ranges,
- without making them conditional on future usage patterns and technology
- considerations. The FCC took the gutless path of stating that they will
- not endorse coordinating bodies, while simultaneously claiming that in
- the case of conflict, the "coordinated" repeater will win out in
- interference disputes.
-
- A messy situtation, to be sure.
-
- 73, Paul W. Schleck, KD3FU
-
- pschleck@unomaha.edu
-
-