On 05/01/2014 03:53 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Steve <stevewa206@gmail.com> wrote:
One thing I have discovered is if you build it, sometimes they do NOT come.
First you have to have a need, business case, what ever you want to call it. Services running etc? I keep hearing this, "services," but what does it mean?
A friend put up a repeater on 2 meters. All it does it retransmit what it hears--it's not even linked to anything--and it still seems to attract rag-chewers who test the repeater's heat dissipation capabilities all day long (If they just used their cell phone, or SIP phones on HamWAN, I wouldn't have to listen to them). No need, no business case, and it's still transmitting all day long.
Tom
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If I may pop one more level of the stack here, I'd say "services" are just a byproduct of "use cases". For 2m repeaters, the use cases are fairly well understood. Not so much on digital microwave networks. --Bart