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Re: Radio Amateurs.. The Chinese are really coming...
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2015, 10:59:58 PM »
 

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Thanx Wirezfree , might check it out soon !
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Re: Radio Amateurs.. The Chinese are really coming...
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2015, 08:57:44 PM »
 

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There are so many facets/angles to Amateur Radio...

- Just chat away to people around the world
- Communicate/exchange messages from your PC via Radio & Digital Modes, what I'm setting up at the moment
- Broadcast TV Pictures inc HD
- Communicate via Amateur satellites
- People who launch balloons with radio transponders
- Radio Foxhunts, orienteering looking for hidden beacons
- Just building stuff

There's something for everyone... You might get to speak to somebody on the ISS

Have a look on: http://qrz.com/
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Re: Radio Amateurs.. The Chinese are really coming...
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2015, 05:48:46 PM »
 

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Hey cool ! did know that you could program it from LL ! A nice surprise !  Thought ham radio was way down .

Had a custom built antenna & had /have a modded 10Meter . + loads of moded cb radios , was some great years for me !

Thought at some time to have my am radio licences but had no time about these .
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Re: Radio Amateurs.. The Chinese are really coming...
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2015, 05:36:36 PM »
 

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I think you maybe surprised how many Radio Amateurs there are, obviosly not like the heydays 70's/80'.
They are at an all time high in the USA: http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2015-03-05#toc02

I think we are in the same position like Cars when the Japanese first started to export in the 60's/70's...
Unknown & Sometimes poor quality, but look at what happened in the 80's/90's they took over the world.

I guess in the next few years the Chinese will improve and adapt.

I bought a Chinese 2M/70cm FM Handheld for £29.99 @ $45.00 over a year ago,
it's still working fine, If it failed now not exactly a big loss.
(( I actually program it from LL 2.2 with CHIRP  ;D  ))

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Re: Radio Amateurs.. The Chinese are really coming...
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2015, 04:10:53 PM »
 

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You rarely see people interested by am radio now .

Had some nice radios when I was a truck driver , but no big am radios .

If I were Kenwood or the other ones I would start to beware of them , they have a real cheap workforce but it s nothing compared to Japanese quality or Taiwan s .

Saw a big difference between Chinese & Taiwan made cb radios .
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Radio Amateurs
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Hi,


This did go quietly by...
https://factualradio.wordpress.com/tag/tokyo-high-power-labs/


Given Tokyo-High-Power heritage & quality I can only assume BaoFeng bought it for the expertise & IP
Looks like the there could be some interesting(cheap) products in the pipeline.
It will be interesting to see how Kenwood, Yaesu and ICOM will react.?


73 - Dave - G8LIY


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