OK Folks I’ve stayed on this Mailing list for tech info. While I got rid of my K3S I still have my KPA-1500. But you people have just become way too strange for me. (And to do that you have to take a giant step over what anyone considers normal ) I’ll get my info from the website. I’m out of here and off this Mailing list.
Ron Genovesi n3...@coastside.net > On Dec 14, 2019, at 6:54 PM, David Gilbert <xda...@cis-broadband.com> wrote: > > > > Completely true ... all of it. > > 73, > Dave AB7E > > > > On 12/14/2019 7:46 PM, EricJ wrote: >> We're missing the point here somehow. Siri's answer should have been "The >> best way to contact Helen is to pick up your phone and call her." >> >> Anything else is pretty much a waste of time and resources just to talk to >> Helen. Seriously, there's a sizable investment in specialized equipment to >> make contact via AMSAT or whatever. The contact is set up for them. Then Jon >> and Helen wait to be told when the link is ready. If that's worth doing and >> will attract young people, then just shoot me. It sounds terminally boring. >> >> Making that investment in specialized equipment can't be justified as >> utilitarian communication because it's expensive and inefficient. If the >> point is to contact your friends any time you want to, they are already >> doing that with a half a dozen reliable instant technologies all accessible >> from the same smartphone. I don't get where ham radio comes in to solve a >> problem they have already solved. Certainly not with a system that requires >> waiting 15 minutes for a satellite to get in position, and a Cupertino Robot >> to set up the call. >> >> I don't have the answer to attracting young people to a rapidly changing >> hobby in an even more rapidly changing world. The aspects of the hobby that >> attracted many of us was the sheer magic of radio itself. We weren't >> attracted to it because it let us contact our friends. Even then we had the >> telephone for that. We were attracted to the magic. Nine times out of ten, >> the communication part was "599 OM PSE QSL". >> >> I always heard how DX contacts would allow me to learn about other cultures. >> Actually, it did. After exchanging signal reports, I'd look up their city >> with an atlas or encyclopedia. But I learned zip on the air. A few >> California Kilowatts could hog a DX station, and chit chat for a few >> minutes, and did because they could. But the rest of us never got beyond the >> basic exchange and fought like hell for that. But it was magic so it didn't >> matter that it wasn't all that practical. >> >> The magic that attracted us is gone. Maybe there's new magic to be found, >> but it's different magic that most of us with 30-70 years in the hobby won't >> understand...and probably won't like. We are the wrong people to even be >> considering answers but anyone expecting to make a living from the hobby >> will have to find that new magic. It ain't instant communication and it >> ain't the ham radio equivalent of retro turntables. >> >> Eric KE6US >> >> ex-K1DCK, WA6YCF, WB2PVW >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to n3...@coastside.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com