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Matt285:
I don't use UHF/VHF very often, but when I do I notice the activity is way down from what it use to be. Yes I do no that it has declined over the years, but it seems unusually low these days. Are people using some type of digital platform for repeaters? I live near a fairly large city that always had lots of activity in years before.

Stretchyman:
DMR, Yeasu (con)Fusion and D-star are the main ones. There are others too.

DMR is super cheap but takes some configuring. I like Fusion but YMMV.

Regards.

Stretchy.

Matt285:
Im guessing thats what most are using. Back when I was very active mobile, Echolink was the new big thing.

Stretchyman:
A touch passé these days!

Matt285:
Yes. For sure. I remember punching in that first node number in and bringing up a repeater out of the country. It was ground breaking at the time! I wonder if anyone still monitors the FM simplex frequency 146.520? That was always fun. There used to be two guys about 90 miles South from me that ran Cushcraft 26B's vertcal. They made up for my small antenna with all that gain. It always seemed like a bit of a waste to have so much metal in the air for FM, but to each their own.

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