[HCARC] Mondat Night HCARC Net 27 Nov 17

[Kerry Sandstrom]

Last nights net was a disaster due to problems with the repeater.  We've 
talked about having a net that doesn't use the repeater.  I think its 
time to really look into this now.  We could , in the absence of 
repeater problems set aside one week a month to run a net without the 
repeater.  In addition, whenever the repeater is not working properly we 
could fall back to the net without a repeater.  Yes, there will be some 
who won't be able to check-in.  Perhaps this net will encourage them to 
upgrade their station so they can check-in.  The simplest approach would 
be to run a net on 146.98 simplex.  That way, if the repeater is having 
a problem, it is just turned off and we all use .98 simplex for the 
net.  That way people will hear activity on the normal net frequency 
whether the repeater is in use or not.

Bottom line - we've had enough problems with the repeater that it is 
past time to figure out how we can have a net without the repeater.  You 
can't terminate a disaster because the repeater is not working properly!

Kerry, K5KS