On Jul 2, 2007, at 8:04 PM, kc8lts wrote: > Bob M. wrote: "These stations are relatively new, so finding one in a > ham's price range is very unlikely." You know that's sad. As most > repeaters are club run and the clubs should want to run good equipment > for their repeaters and they should have some money from their members > and be able to spread the cost out. Quantars have been out since at > least 1995. I have some at work that I service that are dated that > old. That's 12 years old already. I've seen a number of them for > sale for about $2000 dollars. I know quite a few hams that will spend > that much on a single HF rig, or even more. I guess it depends where > your priorities are. I want to know what happened to testing new > things and ways in ham radio?
Huh? "Trying new things" now means buying a 12 year old commercial repeater and typing a ham frequency into it from the manufacturer's programming software? I think I missed something there? I saw that you're running dual- mode analog/P25 in there, but if just turning on a new mode is "trying something new"...? That's just using the technology someone else tried when it was new... And if you're finding a ready supply of $2000 Quantars, I'd love to know where. I've been seeing $2000 or lower MSF-5000's, but not really Quantars. More like $3000, minimum. Still, I think I understand your points, but turning on P25 isn't exactly "experimentation" at this point for anyone BUT hams... we're beyond "behind the times" at this point. -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED]
