-=> Kent Timm wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-   
      
    KT> I can only think of a couple people that got licensed recently that   
    KT> around, one is a horrible operator, he'll key up and talk over people   
    KT> on nets if he wants to talk and always runs high power so he just step   
    KT> on anybody that isn't.  He inturpted me once while I was using the   
    KT> echolink on one repeater to connect to the southcars net, and told the   
    KT> net controller (who had nothing to do with the link being up) to get   
    KT> off the repeater because there was another net coming on in a bit.   
      
   You run into people like that everywhere. Soudns like a bully.   
      
    > HT I was only able to HEAR and SOMETIMES transmit. Now I have access   
    > to repeaters 30 - 50 miles away as well. Maybe with a 'more than   
    > HT' you'd have more people to talk to?   
      
    KT> When I have a regular radio, I use to get good range, I'm on the 8th   
    KT> floor in an apartment and use a home made groud plane on 2m. I use to   
    KT> get in to a repeater about 50 miles away til they lost access to the   
    KT> tower they were using and had to move the repeater.  There's a couple   
    KT> other out of town repeaters I could hit, but they were small towns and   
    KT> pretty quiet too.   
      
   There's one here - the main one for the area - that is VERY tall and is used   
   by a lot of people. The 2nd most active is another VERY tall one and is close   
   enought to the Mississippi River to get traffic from Arkansas. But then there   
   are a TON on Repeater Book in these little towns that I never hear ANY traffic   
   on.   
      
    > GB3LV? If so - just connected... No response yet, but I'll add it to   
    > my favorites!   
    KT> took some looking, when I first got on the air i logged evey contact on   
    KT> paper using a old Radio Shask logbook I modifity and reprinted, yes,   
    KT> GB3LV, April 24 2010, and the contact was m0rom.   
      
   I'll give it another try then. :-)   
      
   Actually I'm at work right now - working on four laptops at once - let's see   
   what   
   I can hear...   
      
   Oh - just re-read what you said. That's not one you use NOW? Was looking for   
   ne   
   I could make a contact with YOU. :-)   
      
   What's the details on the SOUTHERNS thing you mentioned?   
      
      
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