On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 10:41:34 EDT, John Davis
wrote:

On 10/8/2010 3:19 PM, Fred McKenzie wrote:

Otherwise, I've learned one thing after many years in Ham Radio: Most
people will not give a critical report, regardless of how bad a signal
sounds!

Fred
K4DII


One of the things that almost always makes me smile is when I'm
listening to a repeater and some ham says "Your are full scale on the
S-meter here"

Uh.. Sir.. You are reading not the ham you are talking to (Whom you can
not even hear) you are reading the REPEATER He is talking to.... And of
course it is full scale.

Would be nice to have a repeater that gave a courtesy beep that went
something like this ..--- (not a very good signal) or ----. (Very good
signal)
I made a repeater controller years ago where the courtesy beep was a
DTMF tone indicating signal strength. Of course, you needed a
touch-tone decoder to know what it meant, but it was very useful for
testing.
Pat