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Getting back to M3ECM's original issue - the desire to avoid talking to the multipolicity of fucktards on 2M, rather than splashing out on P25, wouldn't it be cheaper and simpler to get some 70 MHz rigs?

A Philips FM1000 or Key KM-80, along with a CB dipole cut down for 70 MHz, would be a very cost ...

escomm wrote:Wasn't aware TRBO was being marketed to hams.

Neither are Key, Motorola, Phillips, Simoco, P25, etc.

They cost 200 pounds in the UK - around 290 US Dollars :anus: .

IMO D-Star is a sack of shite. It's a closed standard and hardly appropriate to ham radio. The radio equipment is expensive, and unlike, Echolink where a PC, headset, free software and broadband connection are all that are needed, you ...

M3ECM and I will be going to this radio/militaria sale at Hack Green Nuclear Bunker in Nantwich.

SURPLUS SALES in the Hangar:
In the newly constructed Hangar building outside the Hack Green Bunker, there will be held twice yearly sales of surplus communications & military equipment. The sales are ...

Do I see a waker here:

Sadly all the good stuff goes on flebay now.

I think we should rename hamfests to shitefests, on account of all the shite on sale.

Passing everything it hears = no access control?

Eek.

I'm going to take a look at that repeater builder site and look into making one... just to play around with, but over here its VERY hard to put a repeater up on the ham bands (red tape).

Not so hard now. There's an amateur near me who's got ...

The Amateur Radio Service for Emergencies will despatched to the event in their fast-response hamabouts.

This looks interesting. Its a hammified version of Digital Radio Mondiale. Anyone tried it yet?

Amazingly the RSGB are doing news broadcasts on 80M using WinDRM. Mayber there's hope for the world of ham radio yet................


WinDRM digital audio news

The experimental GB2RS WinDRM digital ...