[GreenKeys] Repeater - Try again

[Bob Camp]

Hi

As far as I can tell there are a number of people who are going to set 
this thing up. I probably will as soon as we know what we are doing. A 
dedicated antenna for what ever band we choose probably is the main 
project between me and getting on the net.

If this is going to work well enough to keep going we do need the 
message headers and footers worked out. Carrier detect auto start is 
nice, but digital auto start is quite a bit better. We might as well 
set it up so both will work properly right from the start.

Since I'm setting up an antenna just for the net  I don't much care 
which band we use. I would probably vote against 160 meters, and 80 
would be a little tough. Anything else would be fairly simple.

How about the good old 10 MHz band?

	Take Care!

		Bob Camp
		KB8TQ



On Apr 27, 2004, at 11:16 PM, Gary Chatters wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
>
>
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