[plug] Re: [WARG] Northern Suburbs Repeater??

[Blake Munro]

Duncan,

What about us south gero people? We can't get into VK6RAP-2 unless we put up
a bloody tower!
There are mountins of sleepy hams around here, especially in all the
retirement villages around Merriwa. There are people here, just no signals!

Blake


2008/8/4 Duncan - VK6GHZ <vk6ghz at internode.net.au>

> Hello Martin and Blake,
>
> There's only one repeater to use in Perth and thats 146.700MHz :-)
>
> 73's, Duncan - VK6GHZ
>
> Monday, August 4, 2008, 6:33:01 PM, you wrote:
>
> MS> Gday Blake
> MS> I have been in Currambine for the past 5 weeks and there is very
> MS> little activity on the northern repeaters.
> MS> The 70cm VK6RNA repeater provides excellent coverage.
> MS> Maybe when the existing northern repeaters are congested another
> MS> repeater would be a good idea.
> MS> Cheers
> MS> Martin
> MS> VK6ZMS
>
> MS> On 04/08/2008, at 6:15 PM, Blake Munro wrote:
>
> >> Hi Warg,
> >>
> >> I don't want to fire anyone up here, and I don't manage to get to
> >> meetings, and I do appreciate that Walliston is a good site, but I
> >> feel that I must open a new can of worms here and totally change the
> >> subject, just for fun!
> >>
> >> Perth has rapidly expanded in the last few years and WARG seems to
> >> have a very large presense south of the river, with only Tic hill
> >> being a repeater north of the river.
> >> With that bit of extra cash we have laying in the bank, and the huge
> >> number of amateurs we have living north of the river, is it time to
> >> think about expanding, and putting up another repeater?
> >>
> >> Yes, NCRG has a 70cm and 2m repeater at Wanneroo, but Perth really
> >> has grown up recently. It was only a short time ago that "Quinns
> >> rock" was a little country town. It's now a part of suburbia.
> >>
> >> I'm sure another repeater would encourage some not-so-active hams to
> >> become far more active. Walliston is a great site, but when you have
> >> to put up a 20m high antenna to access it, it's not so great after
> >> all.
> >>
> >> I realise that there is probably a greater number of active amatuers
> >> south of the river, but is this because there is a good network
> >> there to support them? Are we ignoring our northern folk and turning
> >> them away because they can't get access to our repeaters?
> >>
> >> My email was purely designed to spark conversation in the matter,
> >> not to upset anyone or to have a whinge. Please, open feedback would
> >> be welcome.
> >>
> >> 73
> >> Blake VK6FBNZ
>
>


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Regards,

Blake Munro
+61 8 6363 5680
blake.munro at gmail.com
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