=====mesquito_creek wrote:Let me rephase the question: Just out of curiosity, is the BFG Relay 151.715 an open simplex 2 meter repeater? Or are they manning that station and verbally relaying to the receiving station? Seems it would get hammered with traffic if its a open simplex repeater...
Cannot answer you radio lingo. But yes they are real people that talk on their on-site radios. There are 2 guys at the site in a high place with a tall antenna and a satellite link and several radios. Not sure how many antennas are at the site on a give race. I suspect extra radios are backup, but they have at least 2 in operation all the time.
Of course the sat setup has a couple of things like a dish and a receiver and a laptop. All supported with a bunch of gasoline and a generator and several batteries. Their place is an interesting place to visit.
The Check Points are pretty similar to BFG Relay setups except the checkpoint guys do not have a sat link.
All the above is for OLD SCORE --- Not NEW SCORE
I have no idea how NEW SCORE works.
Paul