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KØHB wrote:
"Mark Kramer" wrote in message
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No, we could say "who are you interfering with if you put your newfangled
technology on a pair where there is no repeater active?"

The tone of this (and other) responses seems to suggest "just stroke up on a
convenient pair, and wait to see if the coordinated person/club complains".

No, that is not what was said at all. That is not the tone of what was
said, nor was it said directly.

If you know a pair where there is no active repeater, you are not just
"stok[ing] up on a convenient pair", you've picked the pair with an
explicit reason. If a coordinated user complains that you are interfering
with a repeater that does not exist, you are free to laugh at him. Tell
me, just how DO you interfere with a non-existant system? Do you think
the FCC is going to listen to him?

If I lived in Resume Speed, Montana that might work, at least for awhile, if I
had the bad manners and grapes to try.

You think it is bad manners to use a frequency that is not being used? You
only join conversations already in progress? You never make a call on
an unused frequency?

But if you commandeer a pair in an
already wait-listed/saturated environment,

The the pair is wait-listed and saturated, then it isn't unused, now is it?