[CTSARA] [GNARC] Projects and Activites: An Idea and InformalSurvey

[Jonathan Solomon]

Chris-

You bring up some good points.  Frank, you do too.  I'm in, though,  
right now, I'm more passive than I want to be.

Chris, the linked repeaters is an interesting idea.  WECA is already a  
set of linked, or rather tied, repeaters, seeking the strongest signal.

As for the SARA (at least VHF) repeater, John, WB1GRB is often on the  
side, especially when he's working, and Bill (KB1IFY?) is on as well.   
But the "problem" is that I'd guess most people who use the repeater  
aren't able to work the repeater during the day.

But it boggles my mind that when I leave work (sometime between 5p and  
10p, I hardly ever get a QSO.  Rumor has it the GNARC 'NLK repeater is  
active during the rush hours.

Anyway, Frank, I think the best way to get people to join is to be  
definitive... Pick a date, forget about people who can't come (unless  
it's a major day, like the first Monday night football or  
something...) and have the meeting.  Do that enough times and people  
will come.

Perhaps something "regular" like a Sunday breakfast the 2nd or 3rd  
week of the month; something to keep people going between regular club  
meetings.  Weather it's official (ie a "club" get together) or  
unofficial.

Great... now I'm out of change (har har... my $0.02)

Off to work.
Jon
W3EIC

On Aug 19, 2009, at 5:27 AM, Chris- KB1QXR wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> I've been licensed for about a year but didn't do much with it until
> recently, so forgive me if this is a 'dumb' idea...
>
> There are a number of repeaters in this area going up I-95,  
> westchester,
> stamford, norwalk, etc.  Why not link them all, or at least a few of  
> them?
>
> I don't know about other machines but it seems there isn't much  
> daytime
> activity on the Stamford repeater (at least from my (limited)  
> experience).
> In contrast, LIMARC (which as I understand it operates several linked
> repeaters on Long Island) almost always has a good conversation going.
>
> Let's say you did a 3 way link- WECA (westchester) - SARA (stamford)  
> - GNARC
> (norwalk)... this would cover a good chunk of southwestern CT, greatly
> expanding the number of operators that might be listening at any  
> point.
>
> Ideally this would be done with RF and site-to-site links for optimal
> resiliance in emergencies, however that is of course expensive, so  
> if this
> were to be tested it would seem like VoIP would be the way to go at  
> least in
> the short term.  It seems to me (and of course I could be way wrong)  
> that it
> would greatly increase the utility of the area repeaters for very  
> little
> effort...
>
> Plus which this provides an opportunity for another fun acronym :)   
> Perhaps
> SCAN- Southern CT Amateur Network?
>
>
> On another note, I'd also be interested in app_rpt related stuff.  I  
> figured
> I was probably the only one that had even heard of Asterisk...
>
>
> just my 2c...
>
>