On Jul 16, 7:43=EF=BF=BDpm, Tony VE6MVP <t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:01:28 EDT, Dick Grady AC7EL
>
> <r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >An emergency service organization should put up and maintain their own
> >repeaters. =EF=BF=BDFor example, in the last 3 years, the Southern Nye
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ounty (NV) ARES
> >group put up and maintain four repeaters (2 on 2M and 2 on 70cm) so we
w=
ill have
> >them in emergencies. =EF=BF=BDWe make a point to talk on them at least
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nce a day to
> >make sure they work. =EF=BF=BDBut 99% of the time they are idle, and
thu=
s may appear to
> >the casual observer to be unused.
>
> If the area is urban enough. =EF=BF=BDIn rural Alberta we don't have a
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t of
> overlap between repeaters. =EF=BF=BDBut it's clearly understood by
everyo=
ne
> that emergency service has complete priority over all other traffic.
>
> In Edmonton, a city of about 1 million yes they do have a repeater
> dedicated to ARES without a lot of other chatter on it.
>
> Tony
is this related to marqueer's boi-feind's repeater??
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