Haha me either! Mine died ages ago, I too had a 3000XLT, same as what Gavin was talking about. But it expired some time ago so any scanning I do now is from the amateur set
Doug Bell (Zebedee) VK6DB
WARSUG Forum Administrator.
It is very dark.
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Well done to all, I think we did OK especialy with coping from the phantom DTMF'er and a rapid change of repeater.
Can't believe an hour went past with us just yakking on.
And the best part was, for possibly the first time ever I was in a group conversation and not in a permanent state of confusion. I tend to get into groups while mobile, and it's damn difficult to concentrate on who's turn it is next *AND* drive in a relatively straight line and remember to stop for traffic lights
Doug Bell (Zebedee) VK6DB
WARSUG Forum Administrator.
It is very dark.
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Zebedee wrote:
And the best part was, for possibly the first time ever I was in a group conversation and not in a permanent state of confusion. I tend to get into groups while mobile, and it's damn difficult to concentrate on who's turn it is next *AND* drive in a relatively straight line and remember to stop for traffic lights
I hear ya!!
I remember it was frustrating in the early days of IRLP - a lot of nodes were on dial-up so they were using crappy low-bandwidth codecs... driving, while being in a net, while talking to some bloke who sounded like he was gargling underwater and used weird phonetics to spell his callsign... ahh the challenge!
Two-way Yaesu VX-3R 2m/70cm Ham TRX and wideband RX handheld Yaesu FT-1802M 2m Ham TRX mobile x 2 Yaesu FT-7800R 2m/70cm Ham TRX and wide band RX mobile Icom IC-208H 2m/70cm Ham TRX and wide band RX mobile Icom IC-706MKIIG all-band all-mode Ham TRX mobile Icom IC-V85 2m VHF Ham TRX handheld Wouxun KG-UVD1P VHF/UHF wideband Ham TRX handheld Wouxun KG-679P VHF wideband Ham TRX handheld Wouxun KG-713 UHF wideband Ham TRX handheld
Son of a motherless goat will join the queue in court soon enough.
Agreed with nets while mobile. I keep 10% concentration on the radio and the remaining 20% on driving.
Rob
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Two-way Yaesu VX-3R 2m/70cm Ham TRX and wideband RX handheld Yaesu FT-1802M 2m Ham TRX mobile x 2 Yaesu FT-7800R 2m/70cm Ham TRX and wide band RX mobile Icom IC-208H 2m/70cm Ham TRX and wide band RX mobile Icom IC-706MKIIG all-band all-mode Ham TRX mobile Icom IC-V85 2m VHF Ham TRX handheld Wouxun KG-UVD1P VHF/UHF wideband Ham TRX handheld Wouxun KG-679P VHF wideband Ham TRX handheld Wouxun KG-713 UHF wideband Ham TRX handheld
i will soon have a radio licence, but not on the ameture waves
Nathan Fenn
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Yeah why not...then you just need 1 radio to bring the waves together and in the darkness QSO them, 1 radio to rule them all
hehe ok ok. Sorry couldn't join in tonight apart from my less than ideal location family is also getting ready for cousins and grandmother from overseas so we're trying to get things sorted. I will have to sort something out, as most of my trips aren't long enough to have a good chat and I always seem to miss everyone. At least Doug and I know it's 70cm jobby for us to chat when we're at work in Midland. 2m doesn't want to play.
Stirling SES
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If stupidity got me into this mess, why can't it get me out.
Well we started on RFM so that someone could link in if they wanted, but we encountered someone who thought it would be funny to just transmit DTMF over and over again trying to establish outgoing links.
So we moved elsewhere, but lost the ability to have someone link into the conversation.
Oh well, next time ...
Doug Bell (Zebedee) VK6DB
WARSUG Forum Administrator.
It is very dark.
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.