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Posted: 5/28/2016 11:08:29 PM EDT

Myself I like NXDN and DMR. Nothing like digital operating! As Jamie once said on Mythbusters "It's Private"

Posted: 5/28/2016 11:12:21 PM EDT

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Looks interesting, but from the sound of it you need dedicated radios for it, correct?

Posted: 5/28/2016 11:14:27 PM EDT

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Myself I like NXDN and DMR. Nothing like digital operating! As Jamie once said on Mythbusters "It's Private"

Looks interesting, but from the sound of it you need dedicated radios for it, correct?

Yes sir, For DMR access you'll need a Motorola XPR handheld/mobile radio, Hytera or a Connect Systems radio. For NXDN you'll need a either a Icom IDAS capable or Kenwood NXDN radio to be able to access NXDN.

Edit forgot this website that has live audio feeds for DMR around the world.

http://hose.brandmeister.network/

Posted: 5/28/2016 11:36:02 PM EDT

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High speed CW. Decoded by ear, transmitted by computer.

In contest form, because I hate talking to hams

Posted: 5/29/2016 12:04:12 AM EDT

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Myself I like NXDN and DMR. Nothing like digital operating! As Jamie once said on Mythbusters "It's Private"

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P25 for me. And when I realy want to be private I go on P25 LMR encrypted with AES-256. Now that's how to be private.

Posted: 5/29/2016 12:06:12 AM EDT

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Fldigi

I'm also a fan of DMR and looking forward to it getting more ham features

Posted: 5/29/2016 12:41:27 AM EDT

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CW and probably RTTY

SSB, if I'm mobile ( HF )

Posted: 5/29/2016 12:47:18 AM EDT

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fldigi isn't a mode

Posted: 5/29/2016 1:48:45 AM EDT

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Olivia 16/500, JT65/JT9, and transitioning to CW. (They're ALL pretty slow, like me...

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Posted: 5/29/2016 1:59:45 AM EDT

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P25 for me. And when I realy want to be private I go on P25 LMR encrypted with AES-256. Now that's how to be private.

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Myself I like NXDN and DMR. Nothing like digital operating! As Jamie once said on Mythbusters "It's Private"

P25 for me. And when I realy want to be private I go on P25 LMR encrypted with AES-256. Now that's how to be private.

Never tried P25 but here where I live in Florida it's a popular digital format here.

Posted: 5/29/2016 2:06:01 AM EDT

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Fldigi

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I always have been a fan of DMR. I wish NXDN would take off like the way DMR did.

Posted: 5/29/2016 7:01:51 AM EDT

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SSB phone, AM phone, then Contestia 8/500 digital.

Posted: 5/29/2016 8:10:16 AM EDT

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CW, hand-sent using straight key and bug. Preferred formats are ragchew, chasing DX, and operating the SKCC Sprints because of their (comparatively) detailed exchange -- call, RST, QTH, name, and member number.

The only digital operated was packet, back around 1990.

Posted: 5/29/2016 9:21:11 AM EDT

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Olivia 16/500, JT65/JT9, and transitioning to CW. (They're ALL pretty slow, like me...

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What?! You are NOT faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings with a single bound?

(Welcome to the club.)

Posted: 5/29/2016 11:01:18 AM EDT

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DMR
SSB Voice
MT65-2000

Posted: 5/30/2016 12:12:13 AM EDT

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Never tried P25 but here where I live in Florida it's a popular digital format here.

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Myself I like NXDN and DMR. Nothing like digital operating! As Jamie once said on Mythbusters "It's Private"

P25 for me. And when I realy want to be private I go on P25 LMR encrypted with AES-256. Now that's how to be private.

Never tried P25 but here where I live in Florida it's a popular digital format here.

If you like more of the technical crowd you find us on P25.

Posted: 5/31/2016 3:11:22 AM EDT

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JT-65, the absolute best mode if you don't want to talk about Bunions or other health problems.

Posted: 5/31/2016 7:18:23 AM EDT

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WSPR - I like seeing thousands of contacts per hour, every hour, pop up on the server

Great for real time propogation maping

JT65 / JT9 - weak signal performance is amazing

CW - getting into it as DX and DXPeditions start interesting me more

Posted: 5/31/2016 8:01:56 AM EDT

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If you like more of the technical crowd you find us on P25.

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Myself I like NXDN and DMR. Nothing like digital operating! As Jamie once said on Mythbusters "It's Private"

P25 for me. And when I realy want to be private I go on P25 LMR encrypted with AES-256. Now that's how to be private.

Never tried P25 but here where I live in Florida it's a popular digital format here.

If you like more of the technical crowd you find us on P25.

I tried using my scanner to scan some of the P25 frequencies for Amateur Radio and it was dead for the past week so I guess it's not being used right now.

Posted: 5/31/2016 8:12:38 AM EDT

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JT65 and JT9. It lets me sit and watch TV with my wife in the evenings and play radio at the same time. Since I live in a townhome, I'm QRP with an AlexLoop 100% of the time and JT modes still allow me to make a good amount of contacts and work DX. There's also enough DX using JT modes to keep things interesting.

Posted: 5/31/2016 9:05:30 AM EDT

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Always enjoyed SSB, having a lot of fun with psk and Olivia, enjoying CW more as I learn it and make a few QSOs, but my work schedule is keeping me from studying like I should

Posted: 5/31/2016 9:13:28 AM EDT

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Give me a month and it will probably be something different.. For now I sure do enjoy SSB DX.. Working on cw and will hopefully be making more contacts in the future..

Prosise

Posted: 5/31/2016 9:45:48 AM EDT

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I like several, but CW is fast becoming my "go to" mode for DX. I still enjoy JT65, PSK, Olivia & RTTY. I do very little phone now. I enjoy chasing DX & CW will bag you more than other modes.

Posted: 5/31/2016 10:34:24 AM EDT

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I tried using my scanner to scan some of the P25 frequencies for Amateur Radio and it was dead for the past week so I guess it's not being used right now.

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Myself I like NXDN and DMR. Nothing like digital operating! As Jamie once said on Mythbusters "It's Private"

P25 for me. And when I realy want to be private I go on P25 LMR encrypted with AES-256. Now that's how to be private.

Never tried P25 but here where I live in Florida it's a popular digital format here.

If you like more of the technical crowd you find us on P25.

I tried using my scanner to scan some of the P25 frequencies for Amateur Radio and it was dead for the past week so I guess it's not being used right now.

See if you can locate one that is on the "Quantar Site Connect" network. It's a world wide P25 network. It's growing and about to have a lot more added to it.

Posted: 5/31/2016 5:18:47 PM EDT

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I just like tuning up on different frequencies and yelling Ola,Ola,Ola , would that be considered a mode.

Posted: 5/31/2016 6:00:29 PM EDT

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SSB Phone contesting. I'm not a rag chewer.
Digital would have to be packet followed closely by RTTY and receiving WEFAX. I miss the old days and the 24 pin dot matrix printer grinding away.

Posted: 5/31/2016 6:10:36 PM EDT

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CW, any Digital mode, and lastly Phone.

I am an avid DXer, so with nothing but a wire CW followed works best for me.

Posted: 5/31/2016 7:53:24 PM EDT

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SSB for me. Kinda like AM for casual simplex operation on VHF although haven't had opportunity to do that in a long time.

Digital voice modes sound like people drowning to me, find them annoying. Wish someone would make a higher bandwidth digital mode with decent sound quality that doesn't have to conform to the idiotic LMR bandwidth restrictions. Yaesu missed the opportunity with the Fusion system for that.

I'm sure I'm would like PSK, computer CW or other computer controlled digital modes if I had a radio and computer set up to do that.

Posted: 5/31/2016 8:03:39 PM EDT

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Hellschreiber is probably my favorite, when the opportunity presents itself.

Posted: 5/31/2016 8:05:54 PM EDT

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I always have been a fan of DMR. I wish NXDN would take off like the way DMR did.

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I'm also a fan of DMR and looking forward to it getting more ham features

I always have been a fan of DMR. I wish NXDN would take off like the way DMR did.

With Kenwood offering a DMR update for the NX line...I doubt NXDN will gain any more traction than it has. When looking at conventional systems, it is the lower cost option...once you start trunking or needing two talk paths or more at a single site, DMR blows it out of the water.

I'm a DMR guy for UHF but P25 for VHF. However, with the scanner companies moving to MotoTRBO compatible scanners, if you want privacy you really have to look into either encrypting or a Tier III setup.

Posted: 5/31/2016 8:23:00 PM EDT

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SSB for me. Kinda like AM for casual simplex operation on VHF although haven't had opportunity to do that in a long time.

Digital voice modes sound like people drowning to me, find them annoying. Wish someone would make a higher bandwidth digital mode with decent sound quality that doesn't have to conform to the idiotic LMR bandwidth restrictions. Yaesu missed the opportunity with the Fusion system for that.

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Nor have I. It's probably been 18? years since I've used AM on VHF.

I always thought it was a gas. Problem with not being particularly interested in HF is that there are no new (that i know of or can find) VHF/UHF multimode rigs available without adding HF to the equation.

An older VHF/UHF multimode rig is on my list of things to purchase for the shack.

I guess now that I've added to the discussion:

Big D-Star fan so i guess it's my favorite.

Been using DMR with a bluespot/bluestack & Rpi combo.....It's growing on me.

P25 would be cool to try out but there are zero repeaters in this end of the Puget Sound. Does P25 work that well on a DV4mini (edit....the home hasn't launched yet) to bother with plus does it have reflectors/talkgroups like D-Star and DMR?