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

[glennfoley at bellsouth.net]

There are 4 repeaters in the Madison County Area of these I would give
146.865    A  (Madison County EMA tower) weakest in Eastern and Southern 
part of the county.  Generator backup
146.715    A (Madison County EMA tower) Covers from London to Lexington with 
no problems. Generator backup
145.370    B (EKU)  Covers from Berea to Lexington and most of Madison 
County Generator backup depending on EKU

The 4th is a private repeater and covers mainly the Richmond and Berea area. 
Not sure of backup power.  Would be a C or B on the recommended rating 
scheme.

KO4OL

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Flowers" <fred_flowers at bellsouth.net>
To: "A. W." <ky4sp at yahoo.com>; <kyham at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [KYHAM] Does your repeater have "what it takes"? (ARES 
&LocalResponse)


> 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)
>
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>> 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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