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Subject: [digitalradio] Universal M-8000--Dinosaur in Today's World?
I have a chance to buy a Universal M-8000 decoder from a friend for $100.
Is it worth it, or do todays digital software blow it out of the water? (DM
780, MultiPsk, etc?) I am a SWL who has a NRD-535D hooked into a RF
I have a chance to buy a Universal M-8000 decoder from a friend for $100. Is
it worth it, or do todays digital software blow it out of the water? (DM 780,
MultiPsk, etc?) I am a SWL who has a NRD-535D hooked into a RF Systems DX-One
and a Wellbrook 1530 loop, and I just got started with
True, the M-8000 is old. I would suggest that it buying it or not depends on
whether you want to play around with it for what it does still do well:
SITOR/AMTOR, CW, WEFAX, GMDSS, PACTOR, and ACARS for example. For most of
those you can find free decoders that will cover them, but it is still fun
