KØHB wrote:

"Michael Coslo" wrote


Since it seems that I am hopelessly confused between control signals and
broadcasts, could some of the more knowledgeable hams give me a little primer
on how K1MAN broadcasts are the same thing as sending a control signal to a
repeater?


Both are "one-way" transmissions in the amateur bands.

What does the one way transmission to the repeater do? Is it just
something that is done for fun, or "information" or is it something
else? What about a signal to say, turn on a stray elimination filter? Is
that just for sending out a signal, or is that signal made in order to
improve the communications that the repeater handles? Are the signal
tones that I send to activate the autopatch one way transmissions?

We seem to be very close to arguing that the subaudible tones, which
are used to get me into some repeaters in the first place, are one way
transmissions.

Or like the cute post about how if no one answers my CQ, I am making a
broadcast.

Seems like people are doing a bit of stretch on what I am talking about
here. Slippery slopin' it the whole way down. Slippery slope arguments
are so tedious. Kinda like the old dudes at the mall getting upset
because teenage girls are wearing shirts that expose their bellybuttons,
and that means that soon we'll all be forced to worship Satan or
sumpthin'........ yeah I suppose so. ;^)

- Mike KB3EIA -