[FADCA] Re: Questions about the network

[Chuck Hast]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:38:20 -0500, Doug Christ <kn4yt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey Doug,
> I would like to meet you when you work on it.  I have
> sent out an email on the SERC reflector asking who is
> in charge of the digital aspects of the SERC
> repeater/digi.  Is that person you ?
> 
> Burt
> 
> It appears that I am the only person locally who can work on the FPAC
> system. I sure would like to get someone local who would help trouble shoot
> the system as it is about a one hour trip from my office to the site. I do
> not like the role of being responsible for other organizations equipment and
> how they operate it but I do not mind helping out.
> 
> I guess I should have made the trip to Sarasota last week when I was off
> from work. The FPAC site is at the Comcast Tower. There is a bit of security
> involved and I have to get together with Ed, K4JP, in order to gain entry.
> 
> I will have to see how my schedule works out. Maybe I can make it this
> weekend if I can arrange it with Ed.
> 
> Chuck,
> 
> Bobby, N4WFH, wanted a frequency that no one else was on. Like I said, it
> has been too long  (before Hurricane Charley) and all of the details are
> fuzzy. The radio is a Adzen and it is just a matter of turning the dial
> providing the radio still works.
> 


Grief, what frequency is that going to be? All of them are used somewhere.
Why to people have to complicate things with such issues? I would like to
have freq that no one else is on but it ain't so.


Tell him to come up to the real world. We have to share, I could say that I
get tired of seeing the switch calls on the KC5QCN switch port but I do not
it tells me that the thing is alive, indeed that was one of the first
indications
that our problem at the Tampa switch site was a TX problem, we could see
them but they could not see us, makes trouble shooting a bit easier!!!

I suppose since Burt is offering to give a hand perhaps there is a way to
make all happy, Burt you may not like the fix, but you will have to check
out some freqs and then go down there and change the freq every so often
then you can check the heard list and see how much neighbor contamination
there is. The one that is lowest is the one you would use, of course providing
that it is a packet freq. We do not want to go off and get on non-packet
channels since we have no way to determine (in a realistic way) if the
channel is used by non packet or even packet but at a different speed.
You will be monitoring at 1k2, what if you put the radio on a 9k6 channel
you will never see it in the heard list. So there is all sort of issues. This
is what the coordination is all about.

The site has a coordinated channel and it should be used or a new coordination
established, but all of the above needs to be taken into account.

-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."