Tonight we gave a local jammer an honorary callsign.

I was quite active with amateur radio participating in events put on by a local club, conversing on the local 2m club repeater, and eventually was appointed the trustee of the club's repeater systems. Pretty quickly grew to enjoy the technical side of the systems more than actually using them my interests started to migrate towards radio systems that took a lot more technical expertise to access and operate. You get pretty tired of hearing the courtesy tone of the more active 2m system in town get kerchunked every 90 seconds, all day long... and the club wouldn't vote to disable the squelch tail and courtesy tone like I asked.

Yeah, so, I basically turned into an elitist on the 33cm portion of the spectrum. Ended up putting a pretty bitchin Motorola Quantar system on the roof of a 30 story building not too far from my house that is usable with a 3 watt handheld anywhere in about a 10 mile radius. No squelch tail, no courtesy tones, and the system would ID in CW without transmitting the CTCSS tone so it wouldn't break your radio squelch to ID. That system remained fairly active for a few years until I ended up buying a house and took a bit of a break from playing with radios. Recently started turning my MTX9250 on all you hear is silence anymore.

I did buy one of those TYT DMR radios recently. My local techy club that built the quantar system has installed 3 DMR UHF systems in the area and are constantly expanding. That's pretty neat, aside from the massive differential in audio from some of the connected systems (audio gateways like the dv4mini will cause this, unfortunately).

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