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...




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