Thanks for the vid on D star. I've been aware of the system for a long time but never investigated it. I've used HF digital in the past but found most the qso's to be mere contacts rather than conversations.
It appears that the Dstar system requires individuals to put up repeater stations. Of course this is the basis of Amateur Radio Service. 73, Mike
"Profit begins when you buy NOT when you sell." {quote passed down to me from a wise man}
Now go beat the copper out of something, Miked
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Mike my home province was a training ground during the WWII effort, then after the war there was plenty of surplus equipment. Princess Auto out of Winnipeg got its start selling surplus, one of the original partners started a surplus yard in McGreggor. The yard passed onto the son who I know fairly well gives me the scoop on old military equipment.
I've found a bunch of WWII aircraft frames pretty mangled now over grown with brush, lots ofaircraft instrumentation shows up at our local landfill, tried selling some but sales are not popular so I gave up salavaging the bits of history making it available for others who collect and rebuild.
What I did once find in my neighbors garage was very interesting, he had a several of these MK III radios along with related equipment, he gave then to me for cleaning out the garage, The radios were much to heavy to ship so I dismantled them and sold everything right down to the knobs and screws along with the chassis bits and pieces.
Every last bit sold with the exception of the cobwebs.
There were some large capacitors inside metal case's that I had listed when some guys emails me informing me that these contained PCB' s and that I was not permitted to sell them, so I canceled the auction and that's when all hell broke loose.
All the radio freaks silently watching and waiting to place a bid now emailed me in alarm, One fellow told me it was no matter if the caps worked or not as they guys refurbishing these old WWII radios would gut the cans then replace the guts with more modern caps, the can was only used for aesthetics.
The caps were re-listed and sold. I specifically remember some fellow from Brazil purchased a lot of the radio parts.
You do have some cool stuff in your history. Its been said before that perhaps you should take some writing classes and work on a book or two. 73, Mike
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