Walt Davidson wrote:

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:56:26 +1100, G-S wrote:

Well If I use IRLP (and I don't contest btw) then I talk into my "radio"
and someone else talks into thier "radio"

"Talking into thier radio" (sic) is what CBers do. Radio hams
*operate* their radios .... and sometimes even build them.

I am an unrestricted call (any A, B, C, D or E after the number is), I have
built and used radios, power supplies, tuners, antennas, computers (using
linux os's) and other sundry bits and pieces.

I also continue to talk into my radios and type into my computers.

Operate is much too general a term to refer to the act of speaking into a
microphone. Operate refers to the station as a whole.

I used them and continue to use them alongside my store bought gear.

The middle bit is "packets" like my old VFH "packet" radio

A VFH packet radio? Is that some kind of CB rig?

A VHF packet radio... it's a radio I _built_ specifically for packet
operation.

G-S VK3DMN