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In my area, there is only 1 simplex frequency on 70cm. The rest are all allocated to repeaters, and many of them are closed!

If only I had enough money, I could get an entire band coordinated for my own personal repeaters (minus the 1 simplex freq), and then not let anyone else use or "interfere" with them.

I can hear it now, you two take the high road and we will take the low road, and because all that dead air is allocated, we will have to share the 1 simplex frequency between us the rest of the entire ham community.

We got about 10 channels on 2m simplex though. After we move to 6.25 spacing, we should have a few more "unassigned" spots to wreak our havoc.

I agree beetle, the repeater should not be required as available for one and all to use, just the frequency! If you don't want to use or share the repeater, turn it off. Perhaps closed repeaters should be required to publish a use schedule so others would know when the freq is open or closed. Maybe a new approach to narrower channel spacing is time share...

<blockquote data-quote="C2" data-source="post: 140124" data-attributes="member: 568">In my area, there is only 1 simplex frequency on 70cm. The rest are all allocated to repeaters, and many of them are closed!If only I had enough money, I could get an entire band coordinated for my own personal repeaters (minus the 1 simplex freq), and then not let anyone else use or &quot;interfere&quot; with them.I can hear it now, you two take the high road and we will take the low road, and because all that dead air is allocated, we will have to share the 1 simplex frequency between us the rest of the entire ham community.We got about 10 channels on 2m simplex though. After we move to 6.25 spacing, we should have a few more &quot;unassigned&quot; spots to wreak our havoc.I agree beetle, the repeater should not be required as available for one and all to use, just the frequency! If you don&#039;t want to use or share the repeater, turn it off. Perhaps closed repeaters should be required to publish a use schedule so others would know when the freq is open or closed. Maybe a new approach to narrower channel spacing is time share...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="C2, post: 140124, member: 568"] In my area, there is only 1 simplex frequency on 70cm. The rest are all allocated to repeaters, and many of them are closed! If only I had enough money, I could get an entire band coordinated for my own personal repeaters (minus the 1 simplex freq), and then not let anyone else use or "interfere" with them. I can hear it now, you two take the high road and we will take the low road, and because all that dead air is allocated, we will have to share the 1 simplex frequency between us the rest of the entire ham community. We got about 10 channels on 2m simplex though. After we move to 6.25 spacing, we should have a few more "unassigned" spots to wreak our havoc. I agree beetle, the repeater should not be required as available for one and all to use, just the frequency! If you don't want to use or share the repeater, turn it off. Perhaps closed repeaters should be required to publish a use schedule so others would know when the freq is open or closed. Maybe a new approach to narrower channel spacing is time share... [/QUOTE]

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