Hi,
For those that monitor the repeater regularly, you have probably been hearing the repeater squelch break somewhat often and randomly as though someone is keying the repeater, but all we are hearing is noise.
This morning I had an interesting conversation with Richard, AE6XO, a repeater owner in Gualala, CA, near Anchor Bay, about 190 miles north of us. He was coming into our repeater nearly full quieting. The reason it caught my attention was I was only hearing 1/2 the conversation as if he was coming through the repeater, but the other person was simplex.?
Turns out, Richard's repeater, AE6XO is also 147.825 with a PL of 103.5. So why he was coming through our repeater with a PL of 100, I am not certain. But he was absolutely making to us with no problem, and I was able to make it back to him as well. I know it was going through GGF as the courtesy tones were present throughout the conversation. He says he is using a coordinated repeater pair. Maybe it was some atmospheric ducting? I don't know.
I do not know if there is a configuration issue on his end, or if our receiver PL discriminator is not discriminating enough. But it is something to keep an eye on.?
Cheers,
Ray
N6DZK
Ray Dzek