On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Dick Carroll; wrote:
"D. Stussy" wrote:
Apparently, you've never been to Southern California. There were times where
one could count the violations on our "animal farm" repeater - and sometimes
the number of violations per minute would exceed the number of seconds in a
minute. Most of those misfits are still licensed. Watch out HF - here they
come!

Yep, just as they came to VHF/UHF ham radio from the never-never
land of 27 mhz via a no-code (and virtualy no-test) ham radio license.
Seems like the FCC just doesn't care, or they'd never allow it.

There's one and ONLY one reason why the So CA amateur community allows it - it
keeps them off the rest of the repeaters! :-)