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<H1>Amateur Radio repeater applications</H1>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>An item posted on the website of the RSGB Emerging
Technology Co-ordination Committee indicates that the criteria for repeater
applications will be tightened.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Verdana>From </FONT><A
href="http://www.ukrepeater.net/" target=_blank><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.ukrepeater.net/</FONT></A></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG><EM>Taking stock</EM></STRONG> <FONT size=1>(3
January 2010)</FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>It is likely that strict criteria will be applied in the
new year for new repeater applications.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG>Against the backdrop of low activity levels, and
poorly performing repeaters, the need to justify new applications is likely to
be enforced to a far greater extent.</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG>Long-term non-operational repeaters, repeaters
licenced but failing to commence service and repeaters nominally operational but
widely reported as being either deaf or inaccessible for other reasons has
become all too prevalent.</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG>The recent interest in digital modes, in
particular GMSK, has been a welcome boost to the repeater sector of the hobby,
but challenges to amateur use of bands above 2 Metres is likely to require even
greater proof that we "need" and value these bands to support our society in
seeing-off commercial interest in 70cm and above.</STRONG></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG>The focus on radio spectrum is going to intensify
in the coming decade, radio amateurs have to be seen to have our house in order
and make good use of the valuable bands at our disposal in the so called
"sweet-spot" of the radio bands</STRONG>.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>RSGB Emerging Technology Co-ordination Committee
(ETCC)<BR></FONT><A href="http://www.ukrepeater.net/" target=_blank><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.ukrepeater.net/</FONT></A></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>