[WAR ] WAR Digest, Vol 29, Issue 3

[The Wisconsin Association of Repeaters]

Glen,

You may be missing the point here.The change of PL was discussed and is
being changed by WAR.  No problem with that.  The problem I'm talking about
is the fact that when the change of PL is sent to WAR, they have to take the
"ON THE AIR" repeater and remove it from the on-line list and who knows how
many other databases and then when it is officially changed, they have to
re-add it to the on-line database and who knows how many other databases.
Wouldn't it just be easier to leave the lists as they are (ON AIR) and
change them at the next update?

We hear that the all volunteer staff have lives to live too and the limited
time surely could be spent with family or fishing or anything but fooling
around with a ham radio database for such a trivial thing as a PL change.

There is NO LAW that says you have to conform to the tone band plan but as I
stated in an earlier post, it is a gentlemen's agreement which generally we
all try to adhere to.  The beef is that the repeater should NOT be taken off
the on-line or publication lists for PL/CTCSS changes, Especially if the
tone changes from "NON-BANDPLAN" to BANDPLAN.

Nobody can look at the published list and know for sure if the individual
repeater owner has his system ON, OFF, On PL, or on a different PL.

I remember a few years back, I had to change the input PL to one of my
repeaters because some unlicensed jerk was raising heck with that repeater.
I made the change and didn't notify WAR until the next update.  The repeater
was still listed in the directory and on-line.  When the change was official
only the PL input was changed in the directory and the repeater was never
taken off the lists.  Now things are different in this respect and they
don't need to be.  It makes more work for those that focus their
volunteering  to speed up the coordination process or answering e-mail.  We
are only talking about PL/CTCSS, NOT the repeater frequencies.

 

Len / N9QIP