Good read but drop the phrase "Who's going to lug around a transceiver and antenna when a simple cell phone can do it faster and better?" No one is, any more than you and I lugging around a KWM-2A, power supply, etc. as normal course today.
You've got some good statements there. We're a society now that's deep into what I call "convenient mediocrity." We're more more inclined to buy and use rather than make and we don't care about quality so long as it's available NOW and works NOW.... we'll worry about later.....later. Then, we throw it away without much of a thought. We used to replace the red lens in a tailight but not today. We replace the whole damned assembly at an incredible cost. We, in this country, don't seem all that interested in the WHY of something - owner's manuals aren't that detailed any longer it seems. ----- Original Message ----- From: jgorman01 To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 8:36 AM Subject: [digitalradio] Re: USA: No Advanced Digital HF Data Comms Even if we could do multimedia at a decent speed on HF kids wouldn't be interested in doing it over ham radio. Who's going to lug around a transceiver and antenna when a simple cell phone can do it faster and better? Kids aren't stupid, they will use the device best suited for the purpose. >SNIP< >SNIP<
