Lscott

That would be interesting to see. I would guess some rather high gate count FPGA’s. They would be programmed to run DSP algorithms far faster than a micro could do it since the calculations could be done in parallel on the data.

And you thought Motorola and Harris was expensive.

I can see Putin's face as he craps his shorts when he realizes one of his new hyper-sonic missiles he ordered lunched is homing in on a GPS target location in North America. Oops.

I was doing some searching for general info on dPMR radios. In the course of that search I found some interesting info that at least a few of the Russians in the Ukraine are using a nice analog/digital multi-band radio. https://www.cryptomuseum.com/radio/azart/ I wonder if any of these have ended up in private hands for personal use.

Are you looking for a dual band radio for Ham use on 2m/70cm, or for just GMRS? Most new Hams start off with one of the CCR's, Cheap Chinese Radios, until they figure out just what they like as features and their operating requirements. Portable Ham specific radios can run anywhere from $25 for the CCR's to $700+ for some tri-band analog/digital radios. If you want to look at commercial grade radios, well that's a whole another topic. They are normally single band types. The multi band ones get rather spendy, even used.

The 1.25M band is sort of ignored by a lot of Hams. Most of it having to do with the fact the allocation is in ITU region 2, basically North America. Due to that few of the major manufactures make equipment for it. I only know of two that make radios with digital modes that will operate on the band, Kenwood TH-D74A and TH-D75A for D-Star, and Anytone D578 radios for DMR with the proper band settings. Don't try using the D878.

I'm really encouraged when I see young people showing up at Ham swaps. I would like to see more. It proves Ham radio isn't dead.

I would not recommend that one. I have something similar, but with a BNC connector on the end. There is no ground plane resulting in a bad SWR match. The crappy coax shield is used as the other half of the dipole.

Can you provide a definitive reference for the above comment?

You might getaway with slipping the payments past, but where are you hiding the "new" radio?

They can use the phone on board. https://weather.com/news/news/2019-01-07-astronaut-accidentally-dials-911-space-station https://youtu.be/3L82DHQfcF8

My radios were aways sent back to a manufacturer approved repair depot. They would have all the required test gear to work on the class of radios they have been approved to service. For scopes I would just buy one of the “cheap” digital Chinese ones new. Our company purchased a bunch of dual trace 50MHz ones from Rigol. They held up well considering how our service people beat their equipment up in the field.

Gets to be an addiction of sorts.

I've purchase many used radios on ebay. If you shop carefully you can find some good deals. Just make sure the seller has a return option. I did buy a few radios with no return option, however many sellers are HIGHLY motivated to avoid any negative feedback. In the few cases I got a bum radio, with a no return policy, the seller refunded the full, or nearly so anyway, the purchase price and told me me keep the defective radio. In that case I ended up sending it out for repair, which basically cost about the original purchase price. So, in the end I spent about the same amount of money, but ended up with a fully checked out, repaired and aligned radio.