Ham radio and newer generations

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I would absolutely love to go into a tower site. (I'm in the Eastern Tennessee area.) I would be over excited to see the inner working of these sites as opposed to a building surrounded by a fence and the tower.

I should note, this was not the repeater owner that said this but just a user on a private repeater system. This particular user has always been this way and continues to scatter people off.

Echolink was fun and that was the first communication tool I had until I got an HT. I would like to set up a link or interface. Echolink just got boring for me in the sense of it being no radio involved. Just a spacebar PTT.

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Let me see who I know from that area. Maybe we could get you to a site to see what does what and why.

As for users of a repeater telling you off, it's a matter of hermeneutics. It's like when one of these political candidates opens his or her mouth and says something. There would be a thousand people who don't know the candidate trying to explain off, "What _____ really means by that is..." when they have no idea. Kinda like watching an old video from the Merv Griffin Show where John Thor is trying to blow up a hot water bottle while singing Sweet's Action. You can try to explain it all you want, but the right answer is "what the heck did I just watch?!" In other words, they don't know Jack. Now, if Jack comes on the air and says something, that's different.

I used to have Echolink on my repeater. It was difficult for me to maintain because people would connect in and keep my control station hanging up in transmit while they conducted a local conversation on their repeater, and I couldn't break in on mine. I burned out several Maxtracs doing that. Finally, I switched to IRLP, then got bored with the whole thing (and frustrated with CentOS command line Linux) and never reassembled it after I moved down south.