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KC3OLR

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Response to repeater call
« on: December 19, 2019, 07:30:25 PM »

I accessed a repeater by giving only my callsign. I got a live response of the repeater's callsign twice and then another callsign. What does that mean? I expected to hear my callsign and that of the control operator, or my callsign and the callsigns of the station licensee and control operator, and if my callsign was not audible, a signal report saying to repeat callsign.
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WW5F

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Re: Response to repeater call
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2019, 05:41:53 AM »

Standard operating procedure on VHF/UHF voice repeaters is when you announce your call sign, it's basically an implied CQ.

After the repeater IDs, and you hear someone else announcing their call sign, they're announcing they're available also.

Next time this happens, say their call sign, then your call sign, and say something like, "Hi, name here is ...  Currently driving south on highway XX."

And that should start up a conversation.

Side note:  I hear several nubes on the repeaters these days who are lost, confused, don't know what's happening, not listening to what the other side is saying, and asking questions or saying things that are confusing to anyone who is listening.  I hear hams with experience doing this also.  So if this happens to you, just say, "thanks, didn't catch you name, 73, <your call sign> listening."  And then put your mic down for a while.  And if they keep saying anything that doesn't make sense, leave your mic down.
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WA8NVW

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Re: Response to repeater call
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2019, 07:02:33 PM »

KC3OLR: If you happened to have called CQ on a repeater linked to others, you may have heard automatic station identifiers on the first and either a linked repeater or the RF link transmitter.  When a repeater is operating in automatic mode (as defined in Part 97), the FCC does not require the control operator's callsign, just that of the repeater itself.
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ONAIR

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Re: Response to repeater call
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2019, 02:03:40 AM »

Been hearing a lot of new operators calling CQ on repeaters lately.  Is this a new trend?
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W9IQ

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Re: Response to repeater call
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2019, 03:04:36 AM »

Yes, people on repeaters is a new trend!

- Glenn W9IQ
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K0UA

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Re: Response to repeater call
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2019, 07:44:28 AM »

Yes, people on repeaters is a new trend!

- Glenn W9IQ

I remember the "good old days" when there were only a few regional wide area coverage repeaters. You could always find someone to talk to, and "drive time" was almost hectic with the number of folks and the size of the round tables. Then it was decided by "someone" that we as hams should all have a personal repeater. So we all got a repeater of our own. Now we have no one to ever talk to at any time of the day. Repeaters sit lifeless until kerchunked, they ID, they take up frequency pairs and they serve absolutely no purpose at all.

I long for the good old days. 99% of repeaters should be shut down. We should return to the days of a few wide coverage repeaters.   Just my 2 centavos.
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