Had lunch with my very smart engineer brother who works for Raytheon on way home from Phoenix yesterday . He is like a kid in a toy store with his Raspberry garage projects...he is having more fun with that than his highly paid job on making things that go boom! one project is making an intelligent camera tripod that follows action on soccer fields. His kids are all into it with one trying out on Swedish team. Using all kinds of sensors. But he did mention that we need a non electronic communication system....and left it that. On Feb 26, 2016 9:01 AM, "Lewis Bergman" <lewis.berg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess that is really what I should have said. Not that it is to > technical, just not the type of technical the younger crowd finds sexy or > interesting. Some of the projects going on with the SOC's and Rasberry type > stuff are pretty impressive. > The only issue, not really a shortcoming, with most of the SDR stuff is > the receiver front ends are necessarily wide so they get overloaded pretty > easy. Non SDR have narrower ranges so that filtering is built in. > > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:49 AM Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: > >> Once you depart the world of morse code and old people, you find a bunch >> of young people doing SDR based on all kinds of hobby kit hardware. >> >> My friend JJ: 3dbsdr.com >> >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >> >> >> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >> *From: *"Lewis Bergman" <lewis.berg...@gmail.com> >> *To: *af@afmug.com >> *Sent: *Friday, February 26, 2016 9:34:46 AM >> >> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Tessco Show >> >> Sally I think you are right. Many HAMs are older. I think that community >> is getting older because the highly technical nature doesn't appeal to the >> younger crowd. Maybe it is to difficult, I don't know. Most around here >> make time, but that is a bit different. A guy who is on an ambulatory shift >> can't exactly bail on that too go work on a repeater. >> >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016, 9:03 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: >> >>> Most of the hams I have encountered around here are either (a) way too >>> old to have a day job at Jiffy Lube, or (b) their day job is for government >>> emergency services anyway. I suppose my experience may be atypical. >>> >>> >>> *From:* Lewis Bergman <lewis.berg...@gmail.com> >>> *Sent:* Friday, February 26, 2016 6:50 AM >>> *To:* af@afmug.com >>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Tessco Show >>> Bitter over what exactly? >>> I guess I don't understand how you can possibly think that one industry >>> full of professionals is so vastly populated by inept morons while your >>> industry is completely exempt from such vast incompetence. >>> Do you truly believe that somebody can run a better ISP than you simply >>> because they don't get paid?You take money for your services, I guess that >>> means you're not good at your job? It makes no sense. The entire premise of >>> the argument that being paid to do a job automatically makes you bad at it >>> is flawed. If we were in Sub Saharan Africa trying to get some comm up >>> where there was none I would be 100% in your corner since the alternative >>> is nothing. I just don't see how you think you can install, maintain, and >>> operate a first rate communications system supported by a bunch of people >>> who have to wait till they get off work from Jiffy Lube to address system >>> issues. Really? >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 8:56 PM Mike Hammett <af...@ics-il.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Lewis must have a different kind of people in his area. >>>> >>>> I still don't understand how you can be so bitter over this. >>>> >>>>
