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G6Tanuki · 19th Jun 2019, 5:05 pm

I suspect there are a hell of a lot of "Licensed Listeners" on 2M .

Perhaps if more of us called CQ now and again there would be more activity?

These days it's a cinch to build something which will ground the PTT line, play out a pre-recorded CQ message, then unground the PTT. A few lines of a suitable scripting-language and you have the ability to run this auto-CQ at random intervals.

[The CW equivalent is even easier to implement! The days of blowing 2708 EPROMs with different CW messages are long behind us]

Hmmmm... I've got a first-generation Raspberry Pi somewhere.

19th Jun 2019, 5:05 pm	#61
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 13,998	Re: Save our 2 Metre Band. I suspect there are a hell of a lot of "Licensed Listeners" on 2M . Perhaps if more of us called CQ now and again there would be more activity? These days it's a cinch to build something which will ground the PTT line, play out a pre-recorded CQ message, then unground the PTT. A few lines of a suitable scripting-language and you have the ability to run this auto-CQ at random intervals. [The CW equivalent is even easier to implement! The days of blowing 2708 EPROMs with different CW messages are long behind us] Hmmmm... I've got a first-generation Raspberry Pi somewhere.