senile dementia, thanks!
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Most Mediocre/half-a**ed codeplug(s) you ever seen
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One of 'my' radio facilities has an agreement to host a repeater for a volunteer fire district.
When I transferred here, a little more than a decade ago, I soon noticed that there was no license info available onsite. I attempted over several months to contact the fire chief, then the county fire marshal, etc. When I finally got a response, I asked for a copy of the radio license or at least contact information for whoever it was that had such info... silence...
(I won't speak of the lack of help my predecessor provided.)
So an FCC database search finally found a license - expired -
The repeater hardware wasn't narrowband capable.
I really hate to be a jerk, but: out went the letter stating there'd better be a valid license, equipment meeting current regulatory standards, etc. or the plug would get pulled, copy to state fire marshal, etc.
The fire district contracted the local 2-way(?) shop, who mostly installs CB radios in log trucks and sells a few brands of radios to anyone with money, programming not discussed. They contacted me, and I sat down with them and explained licensing, frequency coordination, etc.
Further investigation showed the old repeater was set up with INPUT on the county fire tapout channel, and output on the licensed frequency which was actually supposed to be a simplex tac channel.
The user radios were programmed for the tapout freq - simplex - , the repeater as described, the county rural fire repeater, and MURS.
Nobody claimed to know who set up the equipment, the only name on the expired license was a long-retired chief who died a couple years before.
End of story: Yes, a repeater pair was coordinated and licensed. Yes, a new repeater was purchased. Yes, narrowband radios were purchased for the VFD.
Oh, wait:
1. Does anyone in this shop have a GROL? ...... uhhh...
2. When did your service monitor last get a cal sticker? .... uhhh...
3. You're only getting 4W up to the antenna from your 25W repeater and your sensitivity stinks? Let me show you how to tune a duplexer.
When I transferred here, a little more than a decade ago, I soon noticed that there was no license info available onsite. I attempted over several months to contact the fire chief, then the county fire marshal, etc. When I finally got a response, I asked for a copy of the radio license or at least contact information for whoever it was that had such info... silence...
(I won't speak of the lack of help my predecessor provided.)
So an FCC database search finally found a license - expired -
The repeater hardware wasn't narrowband capable.
I really hate to be a jerk, but: out went the letter stating there'd better be a valid license, equipment meeting current regulatory standards, etc. or the plug would get pulled, copy to state fire marshal, etc.
The fire district contracted the local 2-way(?) shop, who mostly installs CB radios in log trucks and sells a few brands of radios to anyone with money, programming not discussed. They contacted me, and I sat down with them and explained licensing, frequency coordination, etc.
Further investigation showed the old repeater was set up with INPUT on the county fire tapout channel, and output on the licensed frequency which was actually supposed to be a simplex tac channel.
The user radios were programmed for the tapout freq - simplex - , the repeater as described, the county rural fire repeater, and MURS.
Nobody claimed to know who set up the equipment, the only name on the expired license was a long-retired chief who died a couple years before.
End of story: Yes, a repeater pair was coordinated and licensed. Yes, a new repeater was purchased. Yes, narrowband radios were purchased for the VFD.
Oh, wait:
1. Does anyone in this shop have a GROL? ...... uhhh...
2. When did your service monitor last get a cal sticker? .... uhhh...
3. You're only getting 4W up to the antenna from your 25W repeater and your sensitivity stinks? Let me show you how to tune a duplexer.
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