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KØHB wrote:
Then go to each QRG

Please speak english.

in sequence and transmit "K0HB LISTENING". Nobody home.

When I hear someone say "listening", I think, "that's nice, they're
listening". I'm listening, too. If I don't know them or have some reason
to talk to them, I don't call them.

The NFCC needs to quit being the lapdog of the repeater owners, and do some
spectrum management housecleaning.

So now it is also the responsibility of the repeater owner to protect
his investment in equipment by seeking people to use his repeater all
the time? Otherwise, it will be "housecleaned" out from under him?

Do we have enough people to use all the possible repeaters all the
time? If not, then "housecleaning" to open spectrum up for other people
to install repeaters will just result in more empty repeaters. If you say
you just want to houseclean out all the unused repeaters and replace them
with nothing, what value is the housecleaning? You'll remove valuable
resources and replace them with nothing. The only "gain" (in the former
case) will be that new people who want the status of owning a repeater
will own repeaters that are empty. No gain at all in the latter.

I'll point out the opposite opinion: a repeater that is filled with
chit-chat all the time is unlistenable. It just drones on and on and
becomes background noise. Couple that with people who think they need
to be cute and entertaining on the air and it's no longer just noise,
it's painful. We have a "lunch bunch" on a local system every day. The
net control seems to think a sing-song delivery and "creative phonetics"
for everyone checking in is mandatory. I know some people like it. I
find it difficult to understand what he's saying most of the time. Is
he saying something important, or is he just spouting words with the
right first letters for the callsign he just heard? I turn it off.