I’ve always felt that anything that induces people to try ham radio is a
positive, and longer term they migrate to whatever interests them more. The
hobby must be a “big tent” and I say that as an OT who has more or less moved
to CW exclusively. So welcome to all no matter what your ham radio pleasure.
Jim N3BB
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> On Oct 26, 2022, at 11:07 AM, Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com> wrote:
>
> On 25/10/2022 19:14, David Gilbert AB7E wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Calling FT8 an "existential threat to ham radio" is ludicrous no matter how
>> much you or I may dislike it. Anything that encourages lots of activity
>> like FT8 does is exactly the opposite.
>
> Dave is right, insofar as anything that hams care to transmit, or cause to be
> transmitted, on the ham bands may be described as ham radio, and insofar as
> "lots of activity", regardless of how it's generated, is inherently good in
> itself.
>
> All the same, your computer talking to my computer over ham-band RF leaves me
> cold. And, yes, that includes RTTY.
>
> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
>
>
>
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