Robert, All these issues on exploring the digital modes are and should be discussed. It depends upon what interests the posters who are willing to share that information. Be thankful that they do. Many of these discussions are vital to amateur radio. The decisions to come will affect you personally. Perhaps in ways you like and then again perhaps in ways you do not like. You can choose to ignore them and not participate, this is up to each individual.
As far as weeding, it does take work. I have to remove many posts that do not interest me such as on individuals making contacts through the group, that sort of thing, so it does sometimes take an extra minute per day to do this. For specific discussion on emergency communications, there is the hfdec (hams for disaster and emergency communication). There have been times I have asked a digital specific question and received no help. Probably because no one knows the answer. On the other hand, there have been many times that I have asked a question and received help. What specific digital information were you looking for that you can not find elsewhere? 73, Rick, KV9U n4ijs wrote: > Hello! > > I am new to this forum, so please forgive me if this comes across off > base. But, I came here looking for information on digital modes for > Amateur Radio - not various, multi-post messages about various peoples > opinion (and arguments) on unrelated topics. > > I am sure that these discussions are important to a select group of > folks, but are there no other places for these types of discussions to > take place? > > I belong to several Ham related Yahoo! forums and this one certainly > produces (by far) the most emails; however, few are related to the > topic at hand. So, I have to weed through these other messages to get > to the "real" ones. > > If this just the way of this forum, that's fine - I will just > unsubscribe. I hope that isn't the case, but, if it is, can anyone > recommend a forum for exploring digital modes within Ham Radio? > > Thanks and 73, > Robert - N4IJS > > >
