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So this is to start discussion and to vent a tad at the same time. I often sit and wonder why I have a professional repeater on the air - running a Motorola Quantar, CELWAVE Duplexer, intermod filtering, heliax, decibel folded dipoles etc.. Meanwhile I have to listen to a newbie who clearly did NO frequency planning whatsoever running pieced together, flea market equipment with no standards that sits and transmits for hours on end rebroadcasting "Zello" traffic on the same repeater pair I've occupied for years with excellent coverage. Now to clear things up, I'm all for system linking and expanding coverage etc... However, there is absolutely NO reason to have your GMRS transmitter simulcasting nonsense from way outside the area or even time zone for that matter with only a handful of users coming in to the repeater locally. As far as I'm concerned, being a shared service with minimal spectrum allocated, especially for repeaters, there is no reason to tie up and congest an area, in particularly in the vicinity of New York City, with rebroadcasting primarily Internet traffic. RfMedic

The BridgeCom Systems BCR-40U is on it's way back home for a hopefully successful operation and rapid recovery. It cost $50.45 to ship that 21 lbs of dead weight. <sigh> The irony is that the "home-brew repeater" that I'd cobbled together which I've put on-line in the interim, works just as good as, actually perhaps a little better than the very expensive, deaf repeater! I was about 8 miles from the repeater's antenna and was able to get full quieting from both my 4 watt HTs! http://puu.sh/ovIft.jpg