All good points, it is my hope this will help all of amateur radio, I too believe that many will go on to learn code and this I hope will bring more young people into SDR, digital and all of amateur radio. To every one on the list: May your holidays be bright and safe and you new year be prosperous. Al KE5EUP
John Basilotto wrote: > 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 >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ 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
