Hi All
Add another "NO" to the Yahoo reflector. Much rather read the good,
bad,
and ugly here. I use my SDR-1K QRP rig daily. Still not for contest
operation since the reliability of the serial port connection to the second
computer is poor.
Every so often I bring this up. One of these days the external CAT will
be fixed. Then will include the radio into my SO2R setup at full power. I
use my radios hard in RTTY contests. Since January over 3000 Q's have been
recorded.
Adding another reflector will diffuse our effort at increasing the
utility
of the SDR-1K radio. Attraction rather than promotion is the best way.
73 de Jerry NO2T
At 12:18 AM 3/13/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>John,
>
>Did you also notice that within a day there were 12 positive responses (not
>counting any responses sent privately), leading to the following response
>from the authhor of that same email you quoted:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "inspections" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 01:14
>Subject: [Flexradio] Ignorance enlightened!!
>
>
>> Many thanks to all who replied to my earlier post, what a mine of
>> information I received.
>> I now know about the Forum and Teamspeak and a whole lot more.
>> I have downloaded the software,but still having a problem getting the
>> wav files to work, but I'll get that soon I'm sure.
>> Thanks again all ,
>> I will carry on exploring
>> 73
>> Keith
>
>In other works: this reflector just works, for any question asked. There is
>example after example of non-software related questions asked (see eg the
>recent query about DRM/DREAM and the many responses that yielded, every
>single one of them positive. If that isn't an operating question, I don't
>know what is).
>
>Did you also notice that there was not one single YES vote on setting up a
>separate Yahoo group as you propose.
>
>Needless to say, I too vote strongly NO and for just for clarification: I am
>NOT a programmer.
>
>73 de Joe - AB1DO
>
>John Basilotto wrote:
>
>
>> Gentleman,
>> Something to think about....
>>
>> There has been less than 10 "NO" posts in the last 48 hours. I've had over
>> 30 conversations over the last few months with people who don't use the
>> reflector because they are intimidated by the highly technical content of
>> the posts on our reflector. A synthesis of their comments is "...[they
>> are]
>> simply operators and not really interested in writing or even knowing
>> about
>> software."
>>
>> Despite numerous posts by others that they are welcome here, has not
>> changed
>> their mind.
>> It's possible to have Yahoo posts vectored here but some think that doing
>> so
>> would open the Spam floodgate. I belong to three Yahoo discussion groups;
>> I
>> get virtually no Spam because I use a Spam blocker.
>>
>> The below post is what served as the catalyst in starting a Yahoo users
>> groups. Yahoo may not be the answer, but one thing is certain, the current
>> Reflect does not appear to meet the needs of the typical ham-a person who
>> just likes to get on his radio and talk to others. These folks may very
>> well be the dominant group of SDR1000 user in the future.
>>
>> Original post.
>> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 7:42 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [Flexradio] Excuse my ignorance but...
>>
>> I've been reading the mail here for a while before deciding to buy the
>> SDR1K, and one thing puzzles me.
>> There is virtually no discussion on actual use of the radio, by that I
>> mean do any of you operate on air ?
>> All discussion is software related, which is after all what defines the
>> radio, but as someone who is a radio operator first, and antenna
>> experimenter second and computer literate about 15th on the list, there
>> is little to help someone like myself understand the operation of the
>> radio.
>> This isn't a negative comment as I'm sure this list is probably one at
>> the cutting edge of ham radio technology, but rather a request for
>> someone to post about actual use once in a while then I might understand
>> more than the 5% I do at present !!
>> Or is there another list that covers my queries ?
>> I suppose if I bought the SDR1K then I would learn as I went along, I'm
>> just concerned there may be too much to learn to actually use the radio
>> .
>> Keep up the good work, but remember not every Ham is a computer genius.
>> Some of us just like to operate the radio !!
>> 73 de Keith VK6XH
>>
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>>
>> John P. Basilotto
>> W5GI
>> Marketing and Product Manager
>> FlexRadio Systems
>> Office 512-250-8595
>> Mobile 512-663-6727
>
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