From T-MARC -- April 2014 146.000 SIMPLEX ?

[Chip Fetrow]

Sandy:

Except that this is not a 1 MHz split 2 M repeater, but one that is considered to be “upside down” in a bit over half the country.  It is a “standard” 600 kHz split repeater.  It just happens to be where high-in/low-out exchanges with low-in/high-out.

This kind of crap happens all the time.  When I ran a wide coverage area repeater, we had a couple on our input from Pennsylvania, through Delaware, through Maryland and into Virginia, using our input frequency as an illegal, unlicensed simplex frequency.  We were FINALLY able to reach them from a high rise building roof in Springfield, and they immediately shut up.  Five hours of interference.  They could not have picked a worse frequency.  I should have called friends at the FCC.

The other was when some NVFMA officers and big wigs were plotting out simplex coverage for some kind of race and they decided to use our input frequency as their test simplex frequency.  They should have known better.  Three hours of stupidity.

The 1 MHz split repeaters really get clobbered in the NYC area, where many of them have been on the air, and coordinated, for over 40 years.

—chip

On May 7, 2014, at 11:10 AM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:

> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 13:37:11 -0500
> From: Nan and Sandy Sanders <radiodog77 at pobox.com>
> To: andre.kesteloot at verizon.net,'AMRAD reflector' <tacos at amrad.org>
> Subject: Re: From T-MARC -- April 2014  146.000 SIMPLEX ?
> 
> The problem is that people will look at the ARRL 
> band plan and not read the footnote for 146.400 
> and research local usage before going on the air. 
> The band plans came after the bands were in use. 
> There are some 1 Mhz split repeaters around and 
> the like that are exceptions to the band plan.
>      Sandy
>      WB5MMB
> 
> 
> At 11:51 AM 5/6/2014, Andre Kesteloot wrote:
> 
>> April 2014
>> ?
>> We are asking that you please distribute the 
>> following to members of your organization:
>> Lately, a number of people have been using 
>> 146.400 for simplex. Please note that 146.4000 
>> is used as a repeater input frequency in the 
>> TMARC area. It is paired with 147.000 as the 
>> repeater output frequency. Please do not use 
>> 146.400 for simplex activity. Thank you
>