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Public Forums => Radio Talk => Topic started by: Wrightwood on Jan 21, 10, 04:09:04 PM
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Hello everyone,
I have been noticing on the repeater for the past few weeks that most of the conversations on the repeater that gets started usually gets interrupted by a comment or info or break? In almost all of the interruptions the information is invaluable and could have waited until the conversation was over. In some cases the commenting station actually just wanted to butt into the q so in progress and rag chew for a while. I find this rude and I wish it would stop. I'm asking all of you for your help in stopping this out of control impulse to jump into the majority of the conversations.
I listen to many other repeaters on a daily bases and I honestly feel that we have one of the finest group of hams on the Keller Repeater that I have heard yet. We have one of the highest level repeaters in So. Cal. We cover more area and counties than any other repeater. Thats why it is important that we don't forget that we do have alot of hams that use our repeater and we do need to show by example to those passer byes and the new hams that have joined us.
Ham Radio has been the most satisfying hobby I have ever been involved with. We have pilots, engineers, Doctors, Pharmacists, Truck Drivers, Housewives, Law Enforcement Officers and the list goes on. We have the best of the best all in one place. Please help me make it better. I don't want to end up with the riff raff from the other repeaters that we are occasionally experiencing, thinking that they can fit in on our repeater.
I have been T-Hunting every chance I get when those stations are on the repeater. Also there have been some changes to the repeaters Time-Out Timer. This used to be set to 6 minutes and believe it or not we still have hams that will talk longer than 6 minutes and timeout the repeater??? I have changed this to 3 minutes. This way perhaps we can train folks to keep their conversations less than 3 minutes so others will get a chance to talk and add to the conversation at hand.
73' to all.
Ke6ryz,
Dennis Hughes
KPRA President & Trustee,