Repeaters are private property. If you have one in your area and you have the repeater owner’s permission to use, consider yourself blessed, and respect it as such. No one said that you (or I) will actually have access to someone else’s repeater.
What the GMRS does allow us all to do is share the airwaves and it extends us the permission to put up our own repeaters for our families use and to freely share with others as we see fit.
On the flip side, if we decide, as a prospective repeater owner, to publicize that we have repeater and allude to the fact we may give permission upon request then it would seem equally respectful to honor the requester with a response.
As old saying goes, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” What we owe each other is respect.
One final thought. Locally there is a repeater owner that had really hoped to have a repeater in service for area residents to use. The repeater owner listed it on myGMRS. I was gracefully granted permission early last summer, yet a repeater useful to me never materialized. It is online now with about a 1-2 mile working radius. Perfect for the kids in the neighborhood or the neighborhood watch. The person no longer responds to any inquiries. This could be perhaps because he did not achieve the 10-15 mile radius alluded to on myGMRS that he thought he would achieve, or perhaps he did not realize the cost and burden of repeater ownership. Conditions change. Be respectful of that too.
I don’t know the owner of the New Bedford 700 repeater, but I’m very good friends with the owner of the Plymouth 700 and Bridgewater 650. The plymouth 700 covers into the waterfront of New Bedford very well.
The New Bedford is on the frequency as the Plymouth 700 (PAWA) GMRS machine which is quite active during the day. The Plymouth one covers a good chunk of the cape and south eastern mass. There’s also the Kingston 600 and the Bridgewater 650 which also covers fairly well.
WQQQ874 got a reaction from Blackmar401 in Rhodeisland
