The local COOP telephone company(10 employees) has a UHF repeater in the lower 450's on a city owned(pop. 900) water tower. I talked to one of their techs and he said they never use it anymore, he never got a radio installed in his new truck, and he mentioned something to the effect the repeater wasn't compliant with the new narrow banding stuff. He said all there communications are done thru pagers and cell phones now. Another local ham brought up the idea of putting up a 440MHz repeater(there is currently no repeaters in the whole county) using their old hard line/antenna. What is the best way to approach them about using their old equipment?
Tim
Tim