> You run into people like that everywhere. Soudns like a bully.
Yes, kind of a throwback to 1980's CB dayz during the fall of the band..
I don't think he's so much a bully as he is clueless.  I've never met him, I
think he's in his early 90s and just doesn't know how to operate right, he's
really the only person I can think of off hand I would call a bad operator. 
Most people around here do operate ok when they actually do get on the air,
they just need to do it more.

 > 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.
There's half a dozen repeaters in London, the "main" one has
quiet a range, I
think it's 600 feet up on the local TV station's tower, I have clear line of
sight to it from where I sit right now.  I've got it to in from my car on an
China HT and a magmount 1/4wave 30 miles out and can still trip it at 40 but to
 weak to really talk.

 > 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. :-)
nope,  I haven't used it in ages, but now that I'm thinking about it I should
give it a go next time I'm messing around with echolink just to see what
happens.  I don't usualy monitor the repeaters any more, unless I want to cycle
 the battery in the HT..  If I get regualar radio again I'd probably keep it
on, but maybe monitor 146.520 instead of the repeater..  or scan. 

 > What's the details on the SOUTHERNS thing you mentioned?

I heard about Southcars years ago from a pod cast I use to listen to and tried
it out, didn't go back for a long time until recently when I wanted more then
just the local stuff, so I spurataclly check in to it via my tablet.  They have
 a weekly email they send out with the net times, usually the ragcrews at
saturday and sunday at 7pm. http://voip.southcars.com/

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