In my country (Argentina) the use of radio
mainly because of the bureaucracy of paperwork
of 15,000 that last year only 4,000 renewed the license

the regulator (enacom) said that they do not charge for the paperwork but
that it must be done by a radio club .. and that the radio club can charge
what they consider .. and that is how they charge a lot of money to renew and among all the tratimes what you have to do (even check criminal records /
that takes a long time this tratime and also has its cost) and high prices
left many out of your license

not to mention what a team costs here

many bought sdr just to listen because they are also expensive
a generic usdr sdr that in the USA is dollars10 here is 100
and if it is sent to ask for ebay the cost in customs is practically the same

here many digital modes are made mainly ft8 / aprs / packet

in my area we are a little more than 10 bbs per radio in vhf / uhf

my normar reach are 100km in vhf
Here you can see all the bbs there

http://nodemap.g8bpq.net:81/

there are very few with fbb since they are all with bpq32
which is a more modern soft with many more possibilities

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