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    I live in the Southeast United States. My interest on the forums are mostly communication centered. I hold an Amature Radio (27 years ) and GMRS licenses. In addition, I have a satellite FTA setup using mostly scavenged parts, low cost Chinese receivers. I also do ADSB aircraft tracking.

    My career was in information technology.

    I came across the forums in an internet search and thought I could both learn from and assist other members.



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    Welcome "down Under" Luckygecko. You should fit in quite well down here, there are quite a few HAMs and other radio nerds that hang around, I am not one, however.
    I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...

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    Welcome to Austech, luckygecko.

    Plenty of amateurs among the members here too.

    A number also into ADSB, ACARS etc.

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    Thank you lsemmens and mtv. I noticed that a few people who use second-hand communication equipment on the site, are rural 'down under' users. I could see it helping greatly in situations.

    Around here, southern US, except when there is a tornado disruption of facilities, in what we call our rural lands has fairly good communications, but considered a 'broadband gap.' I live 15 miles north of a small town of 7,000 and I get DSL service, 4G LTE, and satellite internet if I wanted. Because of the ease of communications here, I have noticed over the past 20 years a decline of interest to basic, user-supported forms of radio communications. I think the collection of 'real communication users' here was a pull. I am sure this scale pales with it comes your yours, but our 800 sq. mile county typically has 2 law enforcement officers working. Thus there is still the need to solve problems on one's own mentality and practicality, but I don't have a clear mental picture of rural 'down under' except for vast.
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    Quote Originally Posted by luckygecko View Post
    ...but I don't have a clear mental picture of rural 'down under'...
    In a nutshell: take the distances and multiply by 100, take the population numbers and divide by 100, and take the average temperatures and add 100.

    Welcome to the forum.
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    Welcome to this communicative community
    Hope you would learn a lot from this forum, just like I did.

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    Hello everybody, nice to join these forums :-) I'm from Zurich and into electronics forever, but just started with amateur radio recently. And Australia is my favorite continent :-)
    Here in Zurich it's also nice, but there is no sea, no freedom and in general everything is packed. Also missing excellent forums like this one ...

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    Welcome to Austech 2far.

    As mentioned, plenty of radio amateurs among the members here.

    Please keep it in mind when posting not to hijack someone elses thread, like this one.

    It would have been better to have started your own thread.

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