WA Radio Scanner Users' Group

Hi All.

The WIA local and national amateur news is now being rebroadcast every Sunday morning and night on the Wanneroo repeater, channel 1. Times are 9am with a repeat at 7pm.

yeah PER01 is a relay statiom for the amature WIA news

However, the repeater commitee need to take into account that most of the users of the repeater, don't want to listen to the news report. The majority find it boring and unuseful. The management of the repeater need to re-asses their desition of relaying it over a CB repeater.
Cheers!

PRC-495 wrote:However, the repeater commitee need to take into account that most of the users of the repeater, don't want to listen to the news report. The majority find it boring and unuseful.

Some CBers are interested in Amateur radio, some aren't. The ones that aren't can always go do something else for those 2 hours on a Sunday.

The old UHF Association guys wanted to relay the news for years on channel 8, but I guess it took the channel 1 owner to make it happen

hmmm yeah the owner and owner only , its all fine and dandy relaying iot over , but he didnt ask anyone , plus its the same old sh!t each week ,

welcoming , how to become an amature , what boy scout got his licence this week ,how to become an amature, whos using amature radios on there retirement trip this week ,how to become an amature, whos died this week that used amature radio , how to become an amature , relay stations identify ...... *silence* , how to become an amature ,"goodbye and thanks for listening to me dribble sh!t for 2 hours"

Lucas_arts_182 wrote: welcoming , how to become an amature , what boy scout got his licence this week ,how to become an amature, whos using amature radios on there retirement trip this week ,how to become an amature, whos died this week that used amature radio , how to become an amature , relay stations identify ...... *silence* , how to become an amature ,"goodbye and thanks for listening to me dribble sh!t for 2 hours"

So, uhh, not a fan then I take it, Lucas_arts_182? C'mon, it's not that bad!

It's amateur radio news, naturally it's going to be about AR.

Lucas_arts_182 wrote:hmmm yeah the owner and owner only , its all fine and dandy relaying iot over , but he didnt ask anyone , plus its the same old sh!t each week ,

welcoming , how to become an amature , what boy scout got his licence this week ,how to become an amature, whos using amature radios on there retirement trip this week ,how to become an amature, whos died this week that used amature radio , how to become an amature , relay stations identify ...... *silence* , how to become an amature ,"goodbye and thanks for listening to me dribble sh!t for 2 hours"

Hmm.. that just about sums it up lol. If he did a pole and asked all the users of the repeater, he would see no one is interested and its a waste of time. If we wanted to listen to it we would go get our ammature licence. I mean.. its pretty much inbedded into our skulls now how to do so.

PRC-495 wrote: You will find the majority of the users on channel 1 CB arn't fans of it lol.

Oh well. Take it up with the owner then. I think it's a good thing as many (if not most) amateurs have come from a CB background.

vk6hgr wrote:Oh well. Take it up with the owner then. I think it's a good thing as many (if not most) amateurs have come from a CB background.

Or QSY.

WPXZBP wrote: Or QSY.

Nah, simplex is too hard. There are only 2 CB channels Wes. Channel 1 repeater and channel 3 repeater

And the problem is????

you still hear good operators on simplex , eg. 17 and prc guys on 25, and we have taken it up with the owner , only to be abused and squashed out and told to "F off back to our simplex channel" ,ITS A PUBLIC REPEATER SO WHY SHOULD WE?

Surely if someone owns the actual hardware and license to run a repeater on ch1 etc. then they can broadcast what they want over it?? Don't use my cb for much other than when chatting to SES mates and then thats all done on ch 9.

Lucas_arts_182 wrote:you still hear good operators on simplex , eg. 17 and prc guys on 25, and we have taken it up with the owner , only to be abused and squashed out and told to "F off back to our simplex channel" ,ITS A PUBLIC REPEATER SO WHY SHOULD WE?

Thats right. I reccomend those that don't operate CB, you should start sand bagging on the repeater and see how the users of it get treated by the owner sometimes. Lucas_arts_182 was being abused and squashed the other night by the owner. It happens all the time, he starts up arguments and problems amoung users. The repeater should be owned by someone who isn't such a controll freak.