Bob, well said. Happy holidays. John P. Basilotto W5GI Marketing and Product Manager FlexRadio Systems 512 535-5266
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert McGwier Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 10:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Flex Radio Reflector Subject: Re: [Flexradio] [Fwd: ARLB030 FCC to Drop Morse Testing for All Amateur License Classes] Frank and I are at GnuRadio Hackfest. I doubt anyone who knows us would categorize us as anything but techno-geeks. We are constantly looking at the lastest technology (we are about to have an OFDM system running in GnuRadio for example) that could be of benefit to amateur radio in particular and communications in general. That said, though we both support this decision, we are die hard CW users. Almost without exception, when we sit down in front of a radio in either of our homes, the first thing either of us touches is the paddle. That said, I believe the FCC has done a thing they think will help save amateur radio. That they would attempt this is surprising since they could have just as easily made everyone do 20 wpm and killed the hobby for sure and then auctioned off the spectrum. I hope they are right and this succeeds. We must stop having our population grow one year older per year. This is a prescription for utter disaster. The other prescription for disaster is to sit on our backsides and fail to recruit new people, as many as we can that are under 30 years old, into our hobby. Software Radio, Cognitive Radio, and other high tech toys are good tools to use to recruit interesting your people. USE THEM. It is up to each of us in the US to use this opportunity to do all we can do for our hobby. May 2007 be a great year for Software Radio in particular and amateur radio in general. Bob N4HY KE5EUP wrote: > - > > SB QST @ ARL $ARLB030 > ARLB030 FCC to Drop Morse Testing for All Amateur License Classes > > ZCZC AG30 > QST de W1AW > ARRL Bulletin 30 ARLB030 > >From ARRL Headquarters > Newington CT December 16, 2006 > To all radio amateurs > > SB QST ARL ARLB030 > ARLB030 FCC to Drop Morse Testing for All Amateur License Classes > > -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair "If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. " - Dietrich Bonhoffer _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
