"Hamguy" wrote in message
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Talking with a couple of other repeater groups and my own opinion is the
board of the SERA overstepped its bounds by not asking for a pole of
repeater owners. As one of the people that keep up a repeater I do not like
the tone requirement. I had to put a tone requirement on for a while
because of some paging transmitter that had a spur on the repeater input and
it took a while to get that thing off the air.

If they were going to require a tone , it should have been one of two tones.
One for the 30 khz splits and another for the 15 kc splits. That would
eliminate the need to try to find a tone for a repeater for travelers.

The transceivers have had tone boards in them for so long that if you are
using a rig that old you should get a new one :-)
I don' t think that the cost should be an argument against the requirement.

I have been involved with the repeaters for over 25 years incase anyone
cares about my background with the repeater systems.

de KU4PT