[KYHAM] Does your repeater have "what it takes"? (ARES & LocalResponse)

[Fred Flowers]

Mine is A
Fred N4GER
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. W." <ky4sp at yahoo.com>
To: <kyham at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 8:13 PM
Subject: [KYHAM] Does your repeater have "what it takes"? (ARES & 
LocalResponse)


> How about an informal poll- what about the repeater
> you use the most often? Where does it fall?
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> A. substantial backup power and "commercial grade"
> equipment. Talk on it for two weeks if you care to,
> rain, shine, wind or water makes no diffence.
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> B. enough battery for an hour or two and a "ham" grade
> antenna on a "pretty good" tower/structure. The
> transmitter gets "hot" after an hour or two of heavy
> use.
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> C. No back up power, since the electricity hasn't been
> off more than an hour all year. We don't see much
> emergency traffic anyway.
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> D. Two mobiles on a power supply, and an
> antenna/structure no one will climb. "Covers" a ten
> mile radius, if you don't talk too long.
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> F. Quit working and no one cares to fix it.
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> There is no need to name any specific site or call,
> and please don't pick on anyone's machine. Just rate
> the one you use the most with a grade. Let's see what
> the score is for our existing infrastructure.
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> I'll start by rating my usual machine at an A-.
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> AW
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