Re: Narrowband radios supported
What's not being considered is expense to the users who are low income who can't afford newer radios.
Also what is not being talked about is a 30% reduction in coverage you're going to get by going narrow band.
If a repeater owner wants to go narrow band that's his prerogative. At the same time the FCC (meaning Laura Smith) explained to me if an existing wideband repeater was on the air and coordinated there previously the coordinator would be expected to renew that coordination.
Also she said FCC rules remain fluid and you can put up any mode repeater that you want. And it would not be up to the discretion of the WWARA to determine what interference is or is not. That remains a purview of the FCC themselves.
So to say that you don't want the FCC involved really is an effort in futility. They make the rules not the WWARA.
I also agree that people want a repeater because they may not play with others and it may be an ego thing as well.
Scott I agree with you when you say we should investigate repeater pairs that are not in use. They should be allocated to somebody else and if people want to use them in a narrow band capacity at that point would be a good thing to do for the people who want to.
But this sounds like that this could be a mess that we could regret later. I think there should be room for everybody.
Good luck to you all and we'll see what happens.
Steve KJ7YL