[HamWAN PSDR] Services

[Bart Kus]

On 05/01/2014 03:53 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Steve <stevewa206 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> One thing I have discovered is if you build it, sometimes they do NOT come.
>>
>> First you have to have a need, business case, what ever you want to call it.
>> Services running etc?
> I keep hearing this, "services," but what does it mean?
>
> A friend put up a repeater on 2 meters. All it does it retransmit what
> it hears--it's not even linked to anything--and it still seems to
> attract rag-chewers who test the repeater's heat dissipation
> capabilities all day long (If they just used their cell phone, or SIP
> phones on HamWAN, I wouldn't have to listen to them). No need, no
> business case, and it's still transmitting all day long.
>
> Tom
>
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If I may pop one more level of the stack here, I'd say "services" are 
just a byproduct of "use cases".  For 2m repeaters, the use cases are 
fairly well understood.  Not so much on digital microwave networks.

--Bart