<div dir="ltr">And the spec doesn't limit it to alpha (you could use numbers).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Nate Duehr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nate@natetech.com">nate@natetech.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Eric M. Gildersleeve ~ KD7CAO wrote:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> One of the things that concerns me is that if the radio only supports 8<br>
> character calls then we could severely limit some of our club owned<br>
> equipment or even the public safety agency owned equipment. Since you<br>
> can't use the A, B, C, G, or R and I believe a couple of others too.<br>
<br>
</div>Why not?<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> I could be wrong but, I know that certain letters are reserved for just<br>
> the Clusters. Also, the limit in that you can't have a radio with the<br>
> same call as a repeater. So we can't have any W5NGU radios since we have<br>
> a W5NGU cluster.<br>
<br>
</div>W5NGU++A through W5NGU++Z should be plenty of routes unless you have<br>
more than 26 radios.<br>
<br>
The only limitation is that you can't use the REPEATER'S callsign in<br>
user radios. You need a separate call.<br>
<br>
Nate WY0X<br>
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