They ought to use some of the encryption features that are found on newer radios. Or, maybe a small NRA logo in any repeater listing that slips out.Originally Posted by WX7P
They ought to use some of the encryption features that are found on newer radios. Or, maybe a small NRA logo in any repeater listing that slips out.
Closed repeaters are one (antiquated, outmoded, extinct) thing, but having to pay for information for otherwise-public machines, a-la SERA and these jamokes in FL, is asinine.
Jim
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
During the long reign of KR3P as the WPA Repeater Coordinator, the WPA Repeater Council (WPRC) database of repeaters was not available to anyone except Joe. It was considered proprietary information, and the only proprietor was... him.
When he was finally replaced, a good deal of files and other information that technically belonged to WPRC, but retained by Joe and his father (who was on the WPRC board for most of Joe's reign) and not turned over. Most of the databases had to be 'rebuilt' from scratch.
And yes, the entire thing is asinine. I don't know about other repeater councils or organizations, but in his case (knowing Joe since he was a teenager), it was a power trip to him, pure and simple.
“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
BAN THE DH!
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
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I know enough repeater trustees to know that I'd never want to be one.
Jim
The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I've stopped almost all of my activity on the local repeaters.
Used to be fun, but the 'Merica nonsense has gone wacko.
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
Bushtit.
Encrypt everything. Even if you have nothing to hide. It increases the noise floor.
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