Radios Radios Everywhere

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Sunday, February 17. 2008

Radios Radios Everywhere

I got my pretty new radio a few days ago. My Motorola XTS 2500 is quite nice, I have to say. It’s the second to most epic handheld Motorola makes. In addition to the things my HT1250 does like MDC signalling and whatnot, the XTS series supports APCO Project 25. This standard, P25 for short, is a digital protocol for signalling and voice over radio. It’s mostly used in the public safety bands, since digital works better than analog covereage (in general: if the packets can be pulled out of the noise at all, the original audio is maintainted). Kurt, N1PFC came by and helped me program the radio for all my various Ham things in the area (I didn’t own a VHF handheld before so this list is pretty extensive) as well as his P25 Ham repeater not far away.

In other news, I finally got around to doing my Extra class ham license. I got a new call sign while I was at it, and as such I am now NA1C.
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