Slow Code wrote:

Cecil Moore wrote in
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Slow Code wrote:
Why are you people against having good hams?

We're certainly are not against good hams. If code
skill is representative of hams like you, we are
against any other low-IQ-products-of-incest being
allowed into this otherwise nice hobby.

Do you think discussions on repeaters are as technical today as they were
25 Years ago?

SC


25 years? Probably about the same, since repeaters had been around
at least 10 years by then. You could by a repeater over the counter
with tone squelch, and several other toys built in, so they were no more
complicated than a 2 meter handheld. My high school Amateur radio club
built a two meter repeater of of Motorola and GE strips, homebrew powers
supplies, diplexer, and timers in the late '60s. What is the big deal,
unless you have multiple sites and voting receivers? We were just a
bunch of RF crazy teenagers with less than $50 to spend, and we wanted
to build a repeater. A few months later we were given a surplus WE Touch
TOne decoder module, and added a phone patch.

Like everything else the club did, we raised the funds by repairing
old electronics and selling it to buy the parts we needed for the next
project. the only new piece of equipment we ever purchases was a HW-16,
in kit form. BTW, CW was the least used form of communications from the
club's station. they could do that at home, but we had some nice
antennas, the two meter repeater, and several full coverage HF rigs.


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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida