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</head><body><p>It's true of most repeaters in the the American continent, however, the rest of the world has been narrow band for many years.</p><p>Officially, the US is also narrow band. Americans are just reluctant to change.</p><p>Same is true with metric measurements.</p><p>Use wide on a narrow system and your audio on speech peaks might be distorted. Use narrow on a wide system and you will get good audio quality albeit at a slightly lower level.</p><p><br></p><blockquote type="cite">On 31 March 2018 at 18:48 John Wuest <jhwuest@gmail.com> wrote: <br> <br><div dir="ltr"><br><div><br></div><div>ALSO - Someone commented that the transmit mode needs to be changed to Wide Band. This is CORRECT information for ALL ham repeaters unless their specific information states otherwise. The repeater (145.23 in Huntsville) is a wide-band machine.</div></div><div class="ox-039b25f898-gmail_extra"><br></div></blockquote><p class="io-ox-signature">Nigel A. Gunn, 1865 El Camino Drive, Xenia, OH 45385-1115, USA. tel +1 937 825 5032<br>Amateur Radio G8IFF W8IFF (was KC8NHF 9H3GN), e-mail nigel@ngunn.net www http://www.ngunn.net <br>Member of ARRL, QRPARCI #11644, SOC #548, Flying Pigs QRP Club International #385,<br> Dayton ARA #2128, AMSAT-NA LM-1691, GCARES, EAA382.</p></body></html>