Subj : Re: CQCQ
To : Tony Langdon
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Wed Aug 22 2018 02:16 pm
-=> Tony Langdon wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-
-=> On 08-19-18 07:55, Jimmy Anderson wrote to David Abutbul <=-
JA> Yeah, some DMR here, but I haven't jumped into that. No budget for new
JA> stuff right now...
TL> DMR is the cheapest of the DV modes to get into, as there's a few
TL> budget priced radios around that apparently work reasonably well. I
TL> got mine for the best price of all - won 2 DMR HTs in a Facebook
TL> promotion/competition. :)
VERY cool! :-)
DA> I am 34 and most hams I know locally are older, or considerably older.
JA> Well I'm 51, but only got into this about 2 or 3 years ago. :-) There
JA> are some around here younger, but most are older than me. :-) Several
JA> of them are ex-military as well.
TL> I'm 50 and the vast majority of hams in the local club are older than
TL> me. There are a handful of younger ones around too. I'm also rather
TL> unusual for a ham, being physically active as well. My idea of
TL> "radiosport" is not sitting around racking up points in a contest, but
TL> something more like ARDF. :)
I don't knock the guys that just want to connect for contests, but that's
not what interests me either. :-)
My wife and I used to Geocache a lot - and did it a lot with friends.
I think it would have been cool to have our radios back in those days... :-)
TL> I do hope we can get more younger hams,
TL> there's a lot of knowledge and experience in our club that needs to be
TL> passed on, before it's too late.
Yep!
DA> I understand this is not the same for USA and Japan.
JA> Where are you?
TL> For the record, I'm in Australia. :) David's in Israel, IIRC.
Gotcha - I'm in the USA...
... DOS never says "EXCELLENT command or filename"
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