[arm-allstar] ChiliMini just about to be publicly released

[Doug Crompton]

Having shipped radios it is very hard to determine what frequency every
user wants. Since just about every radio today is programmable and the
whole idea of this product is frequency agility it matters little what
frequency it comes to the end user on. Baofeng radios come with all kinds
of out of band frequencies programmed in upon delivery. It is the users
responsibility to program for their areas assignments. Some areas have
differing simplex vs. repeater channels based on local band plans
especially on UHF. If ham radio has gotten so appliance operator that a
user can't even program a radio then we mine as well throw in the towel!
Who cares what default frequency it is on.


*73 Doug*

*WA3DSP*

*http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*

On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 11:16 PM "Don Backstrom - AA7AU via ARM-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> On Tue 09-Apr-19 17:04, "David McGough via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> > Yes, that's a very good observation!  There are *LOTS* of 2M repeaters on
> > 146.64 (input: 146.04) and 146.65 (input: 146.05).
>
>         Thank you for the excellent feedback, David and Buddy. While they
> have
> pre-released many UHF-based units on 446.025 with CTSS of 100, they are
> just now starting on the VHF units - which is *really* exciting as there
> seems to be some great potential for Packet etc using these little units.
>
>         There may have been a screw-up in the on-line documentation; the
> best I
> know is that the standard frequency of the yet-to-be-released VHF units
> should be 146.550 - which would consistent here with the band-plan here
> in southern Nevada:  "145.500-145.800:  Simplex, VOIP simplex nodes (see
> above), miscellaneous/experimental (no repeater operation allowed per
> FCC part 97.205)"
>
>         Thanks again,
>
>         - Don - AA7AU
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