At 4/5/2025 01:33 PM, you wrote:
Many years ago back in the '80s,
I was down in Brownsville for a Texas VHFM Society convention and I set
my mobile radios up to crossband the popular 2 m repeater to 223.46
simplex as I only had my 220 handheld with me... Well guess what, the
police in Matamoras right across the border use that frequency.. somebody
hunted me down and told me what was going on and I had to go turn off the
cross band... In fact a 220 repeater that was in Northeast Texas got sold
to a police department down in Mexico and the trustee who was a W5 call
said yeah I forgot to remove the CWID chip so he laughingly said if you
ever hear repeater on my frequency with Spanish and it sounds like a
police system, just listen for the ID.. because they probably didn't pull
it out ?????
That doesn't sound right: I remember reading through some old CoFeTel
(former Mexican FCC) documents & seeing all the amateur repeater
pairs available in Mexico.? There definitely were 220 MHz amateur
pairs in those documents, so it sounds like a local Mexican official
decided to just do whatever he wanted, in violation of their own
regs.
Bob NO6B
