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W3PNM

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Repeater trustee and control codes
« on: March 19, 2018, 07:22:02 AM »

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Should the trustee of a club repeater have access to the control codes?
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KG4RUL

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RE: Repeater trustee and control codes
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2018, 09:17:19 AM »

Absolutely!  No quibbling on this issue.
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K4JJL

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RE: Repeater trustee and control codes
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2018, 11:42:39 AM »

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Should the trustee of a club repeater have access to the control codes?

It's their license on the line.  I'd want to have control over stuff with my name on it.
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K0BT

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RE: Repeater trustee and control codes
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2018, 01:14:27 AM »

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Should the trustee of a club repeater have access to the control codes?

You have to either trust the trustee enough to entrust them with the codes or get another trustee.
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AI7PM

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RE: Repeater trustee and control codes
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2018, 11:28:40 AM »

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Should the trustee of a club repeater have access to the control codes?

Yes.  And, this question leads me to ask you, who do you believe should have the codes?
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N8AUC

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RE: Repeater trustee and control codes
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2018, 05:00:33 PM »

The license trustee is responsible for the proper operation of the repeater.
As others have said, "it's his license on the line".

Repeater control codes (at least sufficient to turn off the repeater transmitter in the event of a problem) should be in the possession of the license trustee, and any designated control operators.

Now, if the repeater is owned by a club, the license trustee, and any designated control operators take their marching orders, within the legal confines of 47CFR97, from the elected club officials. But they still need to be able to control the repeater, which means they still need to have the repeater control codes.

73 de N8AUC
Eric

PS - Yes I am the license trustee for our club's repeaters.
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N6DSP

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RE: Repeater trustee and control codes
« Reply #6 on: October 09, 2018, 02:19:27 PM »

I am the license Trustee and Technical Coordinator for our club repeaters and absolutely agree that since my name and license is attached to our club callsign, I am fully engaged in our repeaters, operations/codes, etc.
An exception to me is if your Trustee has no interest or knowledge of repeater operation, someone needs to brief him/her of the the fact that they are ultimately responsible for activities or problems that they may encounter from malicious or other types of interference and proper operation of their equipment that may cause spurious, harmonics that can interfere with other systems.

Duane N6DSP
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KG4RUL

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RE: Repeater trustee and control codes
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2018, 04:19:51 AM »

"An exception to me is if your Trustee has no interest or knowledge of repeater operation"....

Why would you want to have that person as a 'trustee'?
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RE: Repeater trustee and control codes
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2018, 08:30:56 AM »

"An exception to me is if your Trustee has no interest or knowledge of repeater operation"....

Why would you want to have that person as a 'trustee'?

Prestige: Re pee ter and I r trusty.
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K4JJL

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RE: Repeater trustee and control codes
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2018, 08:46:16 AM »

"An exception to me is if your Trustee has no interest or knowledge of repeater operation"....

Why would you want to have that person as a 'trustee'?

Prestige: Re pee ter and I r trusty.

That and $2 will get you coffee at Denny's.
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AD4U

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RE: Repeater trustee and control codes
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2018, 05:17:47 AM »

I own 3 repeaters - 6M, 2M, and 440. I printed control codes on a card and gave them to 4 people. These control codes allow the person who has them to turn the repeater ON or OFF, turn PL and / or CTSS tones on of off, and turn typical parmaeters ON and OFF. Usually at least one of us is listening most of the time. Fortunately we have almost ZERO issues like some repeaters have.

I keep the master codes. It is not a control issue. If anyone messes with the master codes and he does not know what he / she is doing, major things can happen with the repeater operation. If anyone does not know how to change the master codes, most of the major things that can happen when you change the "innards" workings of a repeater, can be BAD.

Dick AD4U
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K4JJL

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RE: Repeater trustee and control codes
« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2018, 07:50:51 AM »

I just put a serial server connected to the SCOM controller (we have Internet access on site).  If I needed to turn off the repeater (or disable inputs), I'd pull up a terminal program on my cell and issue commands.
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K6AER

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RE: Repeater trustee and control codes
« Reply #12 on: November 23, 2018, 08:57:40 AM »

I own 3 repeaters - 6M, 2M, and 440. I printed control codes on a card and gave them to 4 people. These control codes allow the person who has them to turn the repeater ON or OFF, turn PL and / or CTSS tones on of off, and turn typical parmaeters ON and OFF. Usually at least one of us is listening most of the time. Fortunately we have almost ZERO issues like some repeaters have.

I keep the master codes. It is not a control issue. If anyone messes with the master codes and he does not know what he / she is doing, major things can happen with the repeater operation. If anyone does not know how to change the master codes, most of the major things that can happen when you change the "innards" workings of a repeater, can be BAD.

Dick AD4U

I agree with Dick. Even though I no longer live in the Denver area many of the repeaters I designed and put up there have complex programming lines of operation. Basic stuff as Dick outlines are fine for the officers and trustees to use on a day to day basis but before getting into the bowels of the programming you need to know what you are doing. As a result the programming master code is not given out.
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