The main advantage of not having a large club owning the repeater is first, all the funds collected go only to the repeater upkeep, If a repair or replacement is needed I just go get one, no voting on what or how much to spend, The current machine has never been off-line more than a day or two due to malfunction ( not power or site work, to which I have no control) There have been several back ups used as is currently (provided by N5VCX ) while I service both the main and backup, one had bad coupling caps, backup needed tuning and programming. The uhf repeater needed a cooling fan replaced and output FETs. I am currently looking at controllers to allow coupling of both machines, as UHF tends to work with HT better, Also will enable the UHF to have outside linking. If anyone has any ideas to what they would like their repeater to do, feel free to email me. I am proud to say that with all the help and support it is one of the better used machines in the Houston area Robert
From: BVARC <bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org> On Behalf Of Chris Medlin via BVARC Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 10:02 PM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <bvarc@bvarc.org> Cc: Chris Medlin <ctmed...@outlook.com>; Robert Polinski <emdhous...@suddenlinkmail.com> Subject: Re: [BVARC] How many members support BVARC ? Hey Robert, When I move to a new city/town, I float around on various repeaters and then I typically land on one that has activity. I always join the associated club to help fund the rpt. But then nearly a year later everyone tells me that bvarc doesn’t “own” the repeater. I grew up with a ham dad who always owned and maintained vhf and uhf repeaters and I saw firsthand what it took to keep things running. (I was a very young flashlight holder in a very tiny outhouse size closet on pallets under the water tower during outages at night.) My experience over the years was that a ham club membership just got me annual voting rights and a newsletter… but I was pleasantly surprised to discover this group is quite active with events and things always happening to keep people involved, even though I don’t have time to participate in many. I’ll continue to be a bvarc member, but I will also be donating separately to the repeater fund. Thanks for all your hard work keeping the proverbial wheels from falling off.. Chris/AC5CM From: BVARC <bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org <mailto:bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org> > On Behalf Of Robert Polinski via BVARC Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 9:30 PM To: 'BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB' <bvarc@bvarc.org <mailto:bvarc@bvarc.org> > Cc: Robert Polinski <emdhous...@suddenlinkmail.com <mailto:emdhous...@suddenlinkmail.com> > Subject: Re: [BVARC] How many members support BVARC ? Or how bout the repeater users (all repeaters ) not donating to the repeaters!! lol From: BVARC <bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org <mailto:bvarc-boun...@bvarc.org> > On Behalf Of Eddie Runner via BVARC Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 9:09 PM To: David Lira via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org <mailto:bvarc@bvarc.org> >; bva...@bvarc.org <mailto:bva...@bvarc.org> Cc: Eddie Runner <eddie.run...@yahoo.com <mailto:eddie.run...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [BVARC] How many members support BVARC ? It was me, in an earlier post in this same thread I said.. now, what about the folks that tie up the repeater and refuse to join BVARC? It was kind of a joke, and something a few might pick up on.. some folks that are REAL ACTIVE are just not BVARC members (yet) Even some of the best complainers sometimes are not BVARC members. Eddie (NU5K)
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