Loading ...Welcome to the People’s Republik of Kalifornica. The creative hams will find new, private accommodations for their repeaters, which are privately funded and maintained.
Just another example of the hubris of government empowered bureau-rats. We have a village police chief here on the Big Island that decreed a ham repeater could not stay on police grounds in the village, so it left about 75 miles of desolate highway along Mauna Loa without any coverage. Pure ego trip.
I have personally seen Kauai Island communications collapse completely during hurricane Iwa. NOAA satellite feed also went dead as the eye rolled onto Kauai. One ham radio operator at the NOAA office, working thru an emergency repeater on Oahu, kept in touch with Kauai county government shelter where they relayed barometric pressure readings to the NOAA office in Honolulu to track the pressure gradient of the passing eye of the storm. Total government comms failure. Ham radio saves the day… again.