Shari vs The Repeater Gods

The DIPOLE - the Worlds finest Amateur Radio News Source like a Dipole there are two sides to every story, we ignore those sides, digging deeper for unwanted lobes and parasitic reactions.For as long as man as pondered the Earth, the Stars, the Universe the Repeater Gods have wisely, masterfully, benevolently and sometimes cruelly controlled repeater communications for us mere mortals.  Our powerful masters have controlled frequencies, mountain tops, and used all sorts of wizardry and mystical powers known only to them to control the networking of repeaters to each other and when that could be done and by whom.

As many of these Gods aged so did their opinions of the mere mortals that revered them, in many cases the disdain was complete and total as was their tolerance of the wishes of their users like connecting to other repeaters at will, listening to check-in nets, having QSO's late at night or simply not being the right sort of operator or a member of "the club".   We mortals held out hope that the Gods would come to understand our desires, hopes and dreams but alas they did not and the airwaves became quieter, much much quieter.

Then in the darkest of hours along comes this new girl named Shari and she flaunts herself right in front of the Gods, denying their sovereignty.  Shari is not interested in the wares of the Gods, no she brings the promise of freedom and flexibility.  Shari is beautiful and elegant and the Gods have no control over her other than to disparage her reputation.  Shari is not phased, no amount of spite from the Gods can thwart her rock star like appeal to the people, her growth and influence is spreading like a wildfire driven by Santa Anna winds.  The airwaves became busy again but not necessarily on the repeaters.  The 144, 220 and 440 spectrum filled with the sounds of Shari Nodes all over the place, operating both digital and analog, all avoiding the Repeater Gods on their solitary perches.                                          
https://hamprojects.info/shari/

Now any mere mortal can have their own repeater/node/link/... whatever anytime they want without the need to bow down to a jealous God.  No more are we required to follow the dictates passed down from the Age of Vacuum Tubes.  The operators of the world will make the 2021 Amateur Radio Year the year of Shari.  Thousands of users worldwide, joining the early adopters,  will be on the air with a Shari Node in 2021, limited only by the ability of suppliers to make them.  
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Shari's appeal and success will be absolute, no matter how many times the Repeater Gods say "that's not real radio".
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de Scott VA7SL

​The DIPOLE - the Worlds finest Amateur Radio News Source like a Dipole there are two sides to every story, we ignore those sides, digging deeper for unwanted lobes and parasitic reactions.