The article doesn't do a good enough job highlighting what I think is the most interesting part about this proposal. Control boards have been in development (1)

The article doesn't do a good enough job highlighting what I think is the most interesting part about this proposal. Control boards have been in development (1) that seemingly are going to make it easy for repeaters to facilitate Adventure Radio traffic. These boards will respond to "pings" letting the user know he's activated a repeater. The beautiful thing about this is if you need to contact someone you no longer need to worry about if you programmed the correct repeater or if you programmed it correctly. In my area, Utah, the mountains make it impossible to hit any repeater even when on the tallest peak of the state. Unless I'm hiking on the Wasatch range where I can see the Salt Lake valley this doesn't work for me. I'll be getting my general soon and won't really be looking back at VHF. 1. https://www.sierraradio.net/adventure-radio.html https://www.sierraradio.net/adventure-radio.html 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhDkGCmuJY8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhDkGCmuJY8