Quote Originally Posted by K9CCH View Post
Let's say you go to a new city where you've never been before, you can tune to 144.390 and it will tell you which frequencies are being used.


at least that's what I understand...
Only if it's a digipeater, right?

I looked up my local area on aprs.fi and see the local digis, but co-located analog machines are left off the list.

I get the public service/special event aspect (for balloon launches, it's kind of neat), but I've never had a burning desire to continually transmit that it's such-and-such millibars at my house.