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I am a returning ham after many years. Bought a Yaesu ft 60. Have located local repeaters. Able to transmit and see off the tone as well as receiving the I D Morse code. However I never hear anyone talking on two meters.

Again, I have been out of it for many years but I remember two meter as being active. Have things changed or did I make a mistake programming the radio?
 

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Check websites of local clubs for times of nets...

Things have fragmented between analog and the digital modes, but there is still lots of activity on analog.



On 2020-10-09 4:57 p.m., raymond.sander@... wrote:

I am a returning ham after many years. Bought a Yaesu ft 60. Have located local repeaters. Able to transmit and see off the tone as well as receiving the I D Morse code. However I never hear anyone talking on two meters.

Again, I have been out of it for many years but I remember two meter as being active. Have things changed or did I make a mistake programming the radio?

 

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There is no certainty in a given repeater. Remember, it's not "the world" out there in a repeater, it's one neighborhood. Ours has almost no activity; in other areas use I sc near constant.

-------- Original message --------
From: raymond.sander@...
Date: 10/9/20 7:12 PM (GMT-05:00)
Subject: [Yaesu-FT-60] Yaesu ft 60

I am a returning ham after many years. Bought a Yaesu ft 60. Have located local repeaters. Able to transmit and see off the tone as well as receiving the I D Morse code. However I never hear anyone talking on two meters.

Again, I have been out of it for many years but I remember two meter as being active. Have things changed or did I make a mistake programming the radio?

 

Ray

I suggest you listen during peak hours. Check during the time people are driving
to work and in the afternoon back home. 2 Meters may be the next FCC target
if utilization does not go up.

With the advent of the cell phone, much of the novelty of being able to call the
XYL faded.? Even in the DC area the major machines rarely kerchunk any more.

Regards

Chuck WD4HXG

On October 9, 2020 at 7:12 PM, raymond.sander@... wrote:

I am a returning ham after many years. Bought a Yaesu ft 60. Have located local repeaters. Able to transmit and see off the tone as well as receiving the I D Morse code. However I never hear anyone talking on two meters.

Again, I have been out of it for many years but I remember two meter as being active. Have things changed or did I make a mistake programming the radio?
 

Welcome back Ray!

Repeaters are pretty quiet nowadays. As others have suggested, monitor during drive-times and ask around for nets. And hey, get on HF! Sunspots are on the rise and there are many folks to talk to!

73 and good luck!

Brian n8wrl


On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 7:15 PM <raymond.sander@...> wrote:
I am a returning ham after many years. Bought a Yaesu ft 60. Have located local repeaters. Able to transmit and see off the tone as well as receiving the I D Morse code. However I never hear anyone talking on two meters.

Again, I have been out of it for many years but I remember two meter as being active. Have things changed or did I make a mistake programming the radio?

 

That was exactly my experience over the last year or so. In some cases there has been a move from analog transmission to digital ones. In other cases we have many other communication options than back in the late 1970s when I was more active. We all have cellphones and apps to communicate - even while on the go.?

Check also if the repeater assumes you have tone on the receive side too.? Back in 1970s, tone was mainly on the transmit TX side to trigger the repeater. Now many repeaters also send the output with a tone that you need to dial it in on your RX side to hear the output.?

-chris

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 4:15 PM <raymond.sander@...> wrote:
I am a returning ham after many years. Bought a Yaesu ft 60. Have located local repeaters. Able to transmit and see off the tone as well as receiving the I D Morse code. However I never hear anyone talking on two meters.

Again, I have been out of it for many years but I remember two meter as being active. Have things changed or did I make a mistake programming the radio?

 

I’ve also noticed it seems people now often tend to participate in nets more often - less often just random rag-chew. I miss that.?

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 4:43 PM Chris Covfefe <chris.covfefe@...> wrote:
That was exactly my experience over the last year or so. In some cases there has been a move from analog transmission to digital ones. In other cases we have many other communication options than back in the late 1970s when I was more active. We all have cellphones and apps to communicate - even while on the go.?

Check also if the repeater assumes you have tone on the receive side too.? Back in 1970s, tone was mainly on the transmit TX side to trigger the repeater. Now many repeaters also send the output with a tone that you need to dial it in on your RX side to hear the output.?

-chris

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 4:15 PM <raymond.sander@...> wrote:
I am a returning ham after many years. Bought a Yaesu ft 60. Have located local repeaters. Able to transmit and see off the tone as well as receiving the I D Morse code. However I never hear anyone talking on two meters.

Again, I have been out of it for many years but I remember two meter as being active. Have things changed or did I make a mistake programming the radio?

 

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Actually, even if the repeater does transmit a tone, you never HAVE to have your radio set up to receive the transmission. The only time your would need that is if you are getting interference from other repeaters or other RF sources. Then you take a chance on interfering with somebody that you are not hearing because you have the rx tone on. Tx tone is needed, make sure you have rx tone off.?

Jardy Dawson WA7JRD

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On Oct 9, 2020, at 17:31, Chris Covfefe <chris.covfefe@...> wrote:

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That was exactly my experience over the last year or so. In some cases there has been a move from analog transmission to digital ones. In other cases we have many other communication options than back in the late 1970s when I was more active. We all have cellphones and apps to communicate - even while on the go.?

Check also if the repeater assumes you have tone on the receive side too.? Back in 1970s, tone was mainly on the transmit TX side to trigger the repeater. Now many repeaters also send the output with a tone that you need to dial it in on your RX side to hear the output.?

-chris

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 4:15 PM <raymond.sander@...> wrote:
I am a returning ham after many years. Bought a Yaesu ft 60. Have located local repeaters. Able to transmit and see off the tone as well as receiving the I D Morse code. However I never hear anyone talking on two meters.

Again, I have been out of it for many years but I remember two meter as being active. Have things changed or did I make a mistake programming the radio?

 

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You can also blame cell phones, e-mail and internet for the lack of activity (from what you were used to) on the repeaters.?

Used to be, back in the day, that most repeaters would be fairly busy most of the time, some of which so much so that you could never get a word in edgewise because everyone was quick-keying and wouldn’t shut up for a second. Nowadays, I can spin the dial around to the 50 or so repeaters I have in my radio, and not hear a darn thing on any of them.?

KB6KGX

On Oct 9, 2020, at 1:57 PM, raymond.sander@... wrote:

I am a returning ham after many years. Bought a Yaesu ft 60. Have located local repeaters. Able to transmit and see off the tone as well as receiving the I D Morse code. However I never hear anyone talking on two meters.

Again, I have been out of it for many years but I remember two meter as being active. Have things changed or did I make a mistake programming the radio?

 

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My question started an interesting conversation. Admittedly it has been 20 years since I went on two meter. What a difference.

Also have noted a change in shortwave broadcasts from what I remember. So different. Used to be a lot of official government stations. Not anymore.?

Thank you for all the input.


On Oct 9, 2020, at 9:59 PM, Mark Lassman via groups.io <kb6kgx@...> wrote:

?You can also blame cell phones, e-mail and internet for the lack of activity (from what you were used to) on the repeaters.?

Used to be, back in the day, that most repeaters would be fairly busy most of the time, some of which so much so that you could never get a word in edgewise because everyone was quick-keying and wouldn’t shut up for a second. Nowadays, I can spin the dial around to the 50 or so repeaters I have in my radio, and not hear a darn thing on any of them.?

KB6KGX

On Oct 9, 2020, at 1:57 PM, raymond.sander@... wrote:

I am a returning ham after many years. Bought a Yaesu ft 60. Have located local repeaters. Able to transmit and see off the tone as well as receiving the I D Morse code. However I never hear anyone talking on two meters.

Again, I have been out of it for many years but I remember two meter as being active. Have things changed or did I make a mistake programming the radio?

 

Raymond

For SWL Google Glen Houser, he covers the bands.

But its not like the old days when you didn't know what broadcast station to listen to first.

Happy days

Best wishes on? your return

Terry G4MWP
Coventry UK
 

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Wow! I'm amazed Glen Houser is not only still alive, but still doing his show!

When I was 9 or 10, I used to listen to his weekly show on WRNO out of New Orleans... this would have been in the 1980's.



On 2020-10-10 11:34 a.m., terence via groups.io wrote:

Raymond

For SWL Google Glen Houser, he covers the bands.

But its not like the old days when you didn't know what broadcast station to listen to first.

Happy days

Best wishes on? your return

Terry G4MWP
Coventry UK

 

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My favorite stations to listen to were:

Radio Nederland
Radio Moscow?
HCJB (Quito, Ecuador)

Radio Nederland had this great program called “DX Jukebox”. Or ?maybe that was HCJB. I don’t remember.?

I used to think R. Moscow came in so good all the time, considering how far away Russia is. ?At some point I learned about “relay stations”! ??


On Oct 10, 2020, at 9:08 AM, Chris Smart <ve3rwj@...> wrote:

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Wow! I'm amazed Glen Houser is not only still alive, but still doing his show!

When I was 9 or 10, I used to listen to his weekly show on WRNO out of New Orleans... this would have been in the 1980's.



On 2020-10-10 11:34 a.m., terence via groups.io wrote:
Raymond

For SWL Google Glen Houser, he covers the bands.

But its not like the old days when you didn't know what broadcast station to listen to first.

Happy days

Best wishes on? your return

Terry G4MWP
Coventry UK

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