> Same thing out here.  The repeaters out here are as bad as CB so I   
    > gave up on  them years ago. I do check into one local club net but   
    > that's it.  I spend  99% of my time on HF now.   
      
   Once in a while i get on EchoLink and check in to a saturday net where I use    
   to live ve3ttt repeater at 7pm, but it feels weird using my android phone    
   instead of a real radio.  But that's as close as I get to 2m now.   
      
   Right now I only have an antenna for 10 meters up, I was going to move and    
   had taken everything down, couldn't find a new apartment so talked the super    
   where I am into letting me keep my current apartmnet or I'd be camping in my    
   car today.  So I'm 90% boxed up right now, I unpacked my FT450, and my    
   Playstation3 to watch movies and there a huge pile of boxes in the living room    
   hoping I'll find a decent place soon as my knees can't keep doing stairs.   
      
   Would like to put my 20 meter hamstick back on the balcony and maybe the 80m,    
   since suddenly the noise that always killed 80m here seems to be gone, but    
   now 40m is a wall of noise, and I WAS plannning on getting a 40m hamstick in    
   2 weeks at the hamfest in London..    
      
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