Quote Originally Posted by rbeau30 View Post
Perhaps we should start by polling the folks who live in harder to reach areas, what repeaters they can get to. Then we know what repeater would work best for most of us.

Then we can informally meet there at certain times, and get a feel for when the most of us might be free.

Then we can ask the repeater owner/radio club to allow us to conduct a short formal net at set times.

We could also perhaps get a frequency plan set up for folks here. (If emergency arises, go to: ____ repeater, _____ freq simplex, ___ Channel GMRS (cobra/motorola/etc radios), or ___channel CB)

If we have a lot of folks in a certain area, we will probably have to break up the regions of colorado in separate groups. (Eastern/Western Colorado, etc)

Just a thought. This would be a valuable skill to practice for the folks who have recently gotten their ticket and have not actually talked much.
I fall in that category of being new and not talking much. I listen a lot and most of the radio talk is out of my league and beyond my current scope of interest. I'll chime in if general talk is interesting but I would do so more if I knew some like minded folks from this forum were on a net. I would also join a repeater club if we found one that would host us. I'm up for simplex too but my transmit range is not so hot unless I'm hitting one of those high up repeaters. I'm thinking about buying a 50 watt radio for my loading bench and an outdoor antenna. Need to do a lot more research before I get that far.