[HiDARG-MEMBERS] Hotspots/Nodes/ETC

[KI7UNJ Tucker]

I'm fairly sure I know who and where this new hotspot is and will do what I
always do and send a nice e-mail asking them to lower power of the radio to
something that only covers the house or QSY.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:04 AM Max Vaughan bb <maxv at bendbroadband.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Casey………
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> Regardless of anyone persons use or purpose or opinion…..interfering with
> the public(HAM) use of a freq that is generally or officially agreed upon
> is still a violation of the rules
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> and especially the gentleman’s agreement that we all hopefully should be
> following. Maybe picking a frequency that is away from what is commonly
> used
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> in our area should be utilized, for whatever experimental purposes are
> being worked on. Lots of assumptions here.
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> 73
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> Max Vaughan KF7MAX  Secretary
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> High Desert Amateur Radio Group
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> *From:* HiDARG-Members [mailto:hidarg-members-bounces at hidarg.org] *On
> Behalf Of *KI7UNJ Tucker
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 28, 2019 07:22
> *To:* HiDARG Members
> *Subject:* [HiDARG-MEMBERS] Hotspots/Nodes/ETC
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>
>      Hotspots/Nodes/ETC whatever you want to call them.. but the
> occurrence of them is starting to get out of hand.
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>     First off I want to state I have no problem with these nodes in
> general, I have an Allstar node at home Myself. The issue is when people
> start to run these on higher power radios and covering the town or using a
> freq that common sense should dictate they should QSY.
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>      A few months ago someone in Bend was running one on 146.520, I could
> copy it all over town (and south of town) and it was connected to a very
> active system. Completely made 146.520 unusable for you know what 146.520
> is normally used for. As it also had a PL code for the input I
> couldn't even talk on it. That one finally QSY somewhere...
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>       Now, this morning there is a new one running on the Freq used for
> the  Grizzly Simplex net. I heard it the other night but once again there
> is a PL tone and I can't get into it, so waste of a freq.
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>       I feel that if you want a personal node/hotspot it should be at a
> wattage that covers your house or your property, there is no need for you
> to cover the town with your Nodes RF.  If you want to run a high power
> node, get a repeater pair and have at it.
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>             I know that some of my views will not be popular and many will
> give me the "no one owns the simplex freq" "and ARRL band plan is not the
> law" and so forth I'm just stating owners of hotspots should be more
> considerate.
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> --
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