Same here. I do not operate digital modes at all personally, even those I helped to create and/or improve. I operate 160m and 40m CW almost exclusively. That does not stop me from conducting experiments, doing design work, and using the brain I was given to learn and expand knowledge. I believe this is in the highest tradition of amateur radio and should continue. When that stops, I have lost interest.
Simon and I and many others like us write lots of code and do lots of experiments. And rather than look at the development of all of this as dehumanizing, I view it as humanist in the extreme. It is an enabler of new things by the HUMANS using the new capabilities. I think we should leave philosophy and concentrate on digital radio here probably. CR is here to stay as is SDR which has been around for a long time. In my case, I was doing SDR for work two years before Mitola popularized the term. I am happy amateur radio OPERATORS are benefiting now from that experience and effort. Bob N4HY Simon HB9DRV wrote: > > > There's much more to amateur radio than just operating - at least over > this side of the pond. Here self-education is important. Despite all the > code I've written there's nothing I enjoy more than listening to 160m CW. > > > > Simon Brown > > http://sdr-radio.com > > > > *From:* digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *DANNY DOUGLAS > > It seems to me that this is all in preparation of dehumanizing amateur > radio as we know it. > -- (Co)Author: DttSP, Quiktrak, PowerSDR, GnuRadio Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. "the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles" Kerouac Twitter:rwmcgwier Active: Facebook,Myspace,LinkedIn
