[drats_users] drats_users Digest, Vol 1, Issue 11

[Nate Duehr]

Eric M. Gildersleeve ~ KD7CAO wrote:
> One of the things that concerns me is that if the radio only supports 8 
> character calls then we could severely limit some of our club owned 
> equipment or even the public safety agency owned equipment. Since you 
> can't use the A, B, C, G, or R and I believe a couple of others too.

Why not?

> I could be wrong but, I know that certain letters are reserved for just 
> the Clusters. Also, the limit in that you can't have a radio with the 
> same call as a repeater. So we can't have any W5NGU radios since we have 
> a W5NGU cluster.

W5NGU++A through W5NGU++Z should be plenty of routes unless you have 
more than 26 radios.

The only limitation is that you can't use the REPEATER'S callsign in 
user radios.  You need a separate call.

Nate WY0X