well you have a good arguement but with the internet the game has changed.
cheap cheap mode things can be coded for security reasons. dont forget the
cell phone digital stuff.
yes we are dinisors!!!!
bob k0wtz
all things are possible in Christ Jesus our savior
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On Tue, 2/25/14, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP <Rick@DJ0IP.de> wrote:
Subject: Re: [TenTec] In praise of older technology
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2014, 10:30 AM
** "personally I think ham
radio has gone as far as it needs to go." **
That statement reminds me of the following:
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
--[by] Charles H. Duell, Commissioner,
U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
Regardless of what any of us think or wish or hope for, I
would say "you
ain't seen nothin' yet!"
Give it 10, maybe 15 more years... we will be operating
fully digitized with
spread spectrum communications.
We'll call CQ, where we won't know, and there's no telling
what frequency
the guy answering us will be on, but we'll hear him anyway
with solid copy.
And yes, CW will probably still be with us, at least if I
still am.
NEXT:
** "oh there will always be a few tinkers to go into the
digital modes but
really for what reason except to prove up well we are
different that's fine
but I don't see where it can really apply on the ham radio
bands." **
That's not quite accurate. There is
reason; good reason:
The reason will be "for more reliable communications",
including digitized
voice modes!
I caught the tail end of the AM era as an SWL in 1959, and
the reasons I am
now hearing rejecting the digital future remind me of the
reasons I heard in
the 50s and 60s rejecting SSB.
Bob, that doesn't mean my heart is in it.
My sentiments are more along the lines of what you wrote,
but we are both on
the wrong side of history with those ideas!
In a nutshell: we have become dinosaurs!
73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of bob barnes
well i came up in the 50s hams loved am and you had to be in
that era to
love and understand it. then came collins with their
first ssb rigs. talk
about resentment because the money boys all gathered
together there was lots
of qrming of them. with the lack of hams on the bands
now we could go back
to am with no problem.
oh there will always be a few tinkers to go into the digital
modes but
really for what reason except to prove up well we are
different thats fine
but i dont see where it can really apply on the ham radio
bands.
by the way when working field day the bands can close down
for some reason
on ssb but cw will always get through. that old
stinkin cw!
73
bob k0wtz
all things are possible in Christ Jesus our savior
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