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30 May 2025 at 16:56 #1798
M0PWX
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    Hi, anon

    first thing is where is your rough location? this will help to identify any repeaters close to you that will help you make contacts

    second, do you know which digital mode is more prevalent in your area?

    you have
    DMR which is a fairly open standard
    System Fusion / C4FM which is proprietary to Yaesu
    Dstar which is pretty much icom radios only

    the other option is one of the internet backed digital voice platforms like echolink you can run from a PC or mobile phone (but you still need to be a licensed ham with a callsign) or if you get a cheap DMR/DStar/C4FM handheld you can pair it with a “hotspot” which are basically a raspberry pi with a small very low power transceiver board on them (look up pi-star in google)

    i have a pi-star here, i can connect to it over C4FM from my FT991a and it can be configured to link into DStar and DMR as well as C4FM

    it all depends what you want to do on the air

    73
    Peter
    M0PWX (not pete M0PSX that runs this site)

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