Subj : Re: Fall
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : JIMMY ANDERSON
Date : Tue Nov 30 2021 13:02:00

-=> Daryl Stout wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 SD> and a bunch of 440 repeaters ... all silent.  It's difficult for me to
 SD> set up a radio in this apartment.  The next apartment I get I'd like to
 SD> have a little patio out back where I can put up an antenna on a tripod
 SD> or something.

 DS>   Then, all the frequency pairs for repeaters are taken...yet, what
 DS> repeaters that exist are "dead as doornails". :P

I think it's worse in bigger cities... I know Indy has SEVERAL repeaters - 
like eight or 12 - but only ever got traffic on two or three of them...

 DS>   I use a ThumbDV with the BlueDV program, mainly for D-Star Nets...as
 DS> that's when I'm mainly "on the air". Otherwise, other things in my life
 DS> outside of my hobbies (the BBS, ham radio, and square dancing) take
 DS> priority (especially my health). But, I was interfered with so much on
 DS> the local repeaters, that the only thing I do locally is being the VE
 DS> Team Liaison for the University Of Arkansas At Little Rock (UALR) Ham
 DS> Radio Club. Otherwise, all my ham radio work is done outside of
 DS> Arkansas.

Interfered with?




.... Oy, Rocky!   Watch me pull a rabbi out of my hat!
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