[CoARES-D10] Oh darn

[SCOMIND@aol.com]

Hi Pat,
After listening to the recording of last nights net I want to apologize 
to several people. In place of being a facilitator of information flow I 
ended up impeding as much as I facilitated.
The only thing I noticed were a couple of doubles, and I don't know how to 
reduce that without doing the kerchunk thing (or operating full-duplex!). When 
Kent Douglas (KA0TTH) was D-10 EC, he required the "this is" kerchunk on nets 
just as we MARtians did. But on the other hand, kerchunking a repeater is a 
whole lot different from kerchunking on SSB - - the repeater returns a beep and a 
squelch crash, whereas on SSB you only hear a voice... and kerchunks are much 
more tolerable.

Come to think of it, we *could* make the repeater sound more like an HF net. 
For example, when the net starts, the NCS enters a DTMF command that puts the 
repeater into "net mode", right? That command only switches the repeater from 
CTCSS access to carrier access, but it could do a lot more. It could delete 
the courtesy beep (or make it somehow less noticable), lengthen the dropout 
timer, push the timeout timer out to 30 minutes, or do whatever else we want. In 
other words, the repeater could stay up a lot longer (for the whole net, if 
needed) and sound much more like a quiet net than it normally sounds during drive 
time. The controller has the ability to give the repeater an entirely 
different personality during nets (or emergencies). Lots of experimenting can be done 
to see what folks would prefer.

73,
Bob


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