Well, it's been a couple years...
We're still going strong down here! (actually quite a few new users!)
Still a great wide area coverage, and one of the only 25 remaining 2m repeaters in the whole state with an open autopatch, along with 24/7/365 emergency power, etc.


But, we have a new state repeater coordination association....and to say that they had erroneous data is an understatement.
(Even though I kept the coordination accurately updated every year or two, they had our tower 6 to 7 miles on the other side of town, hasn't been there in 25 - 30 years....and they had an old friend, who passed away years ago, and had his old callsign that he hadn't had in 25 - 30 years, as the trustee) 
Anyway, I won't throw 'em all the way under the bus here, everyone makes mistakes....suffice to say that after a few decades on the same tower (and same height and transmit power/ERP) covering a wide area and serving thousands of traveling hams, the new coordination association has decided to change some rules?
Even with fewer and fewer active 2m repeaters on-the-air, they insist that all must use now use CTCSS so that they can pack co-channel machines geographically close together. While they do use Longley-Rice modeling (with some of its inherent anomalies), they wanted to add a new repeater on our channel (co-channel) and insisted that we use CTCSS, even though there are a plethora of open 2m freq pairs, and with so many travelers using the repeater who typically don't have pre-knowledge of the CTCSS tones of various repeaters, and even if they do know what tone to use, just a bit too dangerous to have 'em program it in at 75-80mph, or sitting on the side of the highway somewhere.
Not to mention the fallacy of CTCSS solving co-channel interference! (heck we knew this decades ago....why the coordinators haven't, well just confuses me)
http://www.repeater-builder.com/tech-info/ctcss/ctcss-doesnt-fix-anything.htmlhttp://www.repeater-builder.com/tech-info/ctcss/ctcss-overview.htmlSo, while we're not giving up....just wanted all to know that there maybe some storm clouds ahead....not caused by technology, rather by politics and bureaucracy in the Amateur Radio Service.

73, and Fair Winds to all,
John, KA4WJA