Agreed - I would say that innovation is proceeding faster than at any time during the 35 years since I was first licenced to create QRM on 160m.
There will be spectacular SDR radios released in 2010 / 2011. Simon Brown, HB9DRV http://sdr-radio.com From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of J. Moen I think there's quite a lot of innovation going on in several areas of ham radio -- QRP (hardware design, in particular), digital (mostly software in various areas, including D-Star) and software defined radio. In fact, I think you could say that even though digital ham radio is still in its infancy, this is nearly a golden age of creative new work. It certainly is an exciting time to be a ham.