[GreenKeys] Repeater - Try again

[Gary Chatters]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Bob Camp wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What we need more than anything else is activity on the air. Without
> activity there's not a lot of point in all this.

A very good point.  The discussion of SELCAL has been interesting, but the
thing I am looking for is a frequency that I can set my receiver to and
expect to hear some occasional activity.  Either a machine with autostart
or a computer storing to file would work for monitoring.  Would there be
so much activity that SELCAL would really be needed?

How many people on this list could do this right now?  I can't, but it
should take too much effort to set up.

What band should be use?.  Some of this discussion was about how to
encourage more activity on 80 or 40.  Would either of these bands be
appropriate?  How about 30m?


 Repeaters are a good
> way to get a lot of activity on a single channel.
>
> So back to the rules and regs. Can we set this up as a remotely
> controlled digital station?


Repeaters (simultaneous retransmission on a different frequency) are only
allowed on 10m and up.  Could this be a message forwarding system?


 What I would propose would be a group of
> receiver sites around the country. Each one would feed data to the
> repeater transmitter. Voting the various receiver sites and that stuff
> is pretty straight forward (but not necessarily easy).

An interesting idea.  I have been thinking of just connecting a TU to a
computer with a telnet server.  Users could connect and watch activity on
the channel from the remote receive site.

Gary