Subj : Re: VARA Modem
To   : echicken
From : Andre Robitaille
Date : Wed Feb 23 2022 03:25:01

  Re: Re: VARA Modem
  By: echicken to Vk3jed on Wed Feb 23 2022 03:06 am

 ec> Yeah, $240 CAD for the FT-70 is not bad, but more than I'm willing to
 ec> spend right now to check out yet another DV mode. Tempting though, since a
 ec> local friend is a fan of it and says there's decent activity here. Perhaps

I've got too many HTs and a couple pi-stars. The problem with these digital modes isn't the level of activity (there's not a ton, but there's enough). The problem is the quality of the activity. Well that, and that on most of them everyone's voice quality is so bad that I can't distinguish my 70yo friends from my own 14yo son.

It's *exactly* like being on a local repeater. Banal talk about nothing. Where they're driving to, what the weather/driving/traffic conditions are like, some appointment they're going to, often medical-related. The usual fake laugh at their whatever they just said while they keydown for three minutes straight and talk about nothing.

I like ham radio. It takes up a pretty large part of my time. But there is an inverse relationship between people that like to ragchew and people that are interesting.


- Andre, WT9X

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