Wasted airtime

[rfmedic]

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

[n4gix]

I feel your pain! That would seriously annoy me as well.

[coryb27]

That is rather unfortunate somebody had created a zello radio station, have you reached out to the repeater owner to see you you can come to an agreement?  

[WQPE714]

You see this a lot in europe on PMR446 and CB linked on FRN (Free Radio Network) or something like that. Didn't know it was allowed on GMRS.