To Beep or Not to Beep...To Hang or Not to Hang...

[K9TSU]

Ok, yes, I'm talking about repeater courtesy beeps and hang times. I've got a repeater up, NOW WHAT? All the fun crap.. Well, we have lots of sarcastic Voice IDs done by local radio DJs/hams, which is cool, and the time ID is done by the "Tom" voice, the same one as on the weather radios.

Now, I'm undecided between quick beep, long hang time, quick beep, short hang time, no beep, long hangtime, etc. Opinions wanted! I guess I'm asking, "What courtesy beep/hang time configuration would your "dream repeater" have?"

Thanks :-)

[N2CHX]

Ok, yes, I'm talking about repeater courtesy beeps and hang times. I've got a repeater up, NOW WHAT? All the fun crap.. Well, we have lots of sarcastic Voice IDs done by local radio DJs/hams, which is cool, and the time ID is done by the "Tom" voice, the same one as on the weather radios.

Now, I'm undecided between quick beep, long hang time, quick beep, short hang time, no beep, long hangtime, etc. Opinions wanted! I guess I'm asking, "What courtesy beep/hang time configuration would your "dream repeater" have?"

Thanks :-)

Short and sweet.

[NA4BH]

Ditto

[NQ6U]

Don't forget the roger beep and echo, good buddy.

[N2CHX]

Don't forget the roger beep and echo, good buddy.

Heh, yeah. Not on any repeater I would use. Short, quiet beep and a fairly quick drop. No bells, whistles, fart noises, useless information, yada yada.

[WØTKX]

I suggest a triangle solo!

NSFW for language...

http://youtu.be/ErlqXdWzzNw

[W2NAP]

I got a C.T. and also a 2.7s hang time. (if the controller I have allowed more id go 5s hang)

Longer hang time annoys the piss out of the kerchunkers cause they have to wait so long to chunk again. they get bored and move to another repeater and chunk somewhere else.

if I do voice id (which is doubtful) it would be a short W2IBC Repeater. and thats it. but honestly I have cw id. if someone wants to know what it says then learn code.

[WØTKX]

[kb2vxa]

Up north my favorite repeater had neither tone nor tail, CWID was transmitted without PL so when monitoring nobody was bothered by it. That's how it's done on public service repeaters, what purpose do they serve on ham repeaters? Oh, one in New York had a frog and with all the kerchunkers at times it sounded like a summer night in the Great Swamp. Speaking of New York, once upon a time there was a lid who put a linked system on all the calling channels..........

...............because anything can happen in New York (and usually does).

[N8YX]

Don't forget the nice touch-tone replay feature of the ACC-850 and similar controllers.

There was a spate of "Sierra 8 Papa - Papa 8 Sierra - 6 9 6 9" tests occurring on a couple area machines after they 'upgraded' their controllers in the 80s. :roll: