There's a legion of hams mired in the past. The world for them ended in 1978. (When the Wikipedia says Collins went solid state hehe)
And judging from some of the vendors I met in the Dayton flea market .. there are some true whackers among us. On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Michael Tondee <mat...@netcommander.com>wrote: > I was over in the chat that goes along with WA5KUB's helmet cam at Dayton > today and could not believe some of the attitudes I encountered upon > mentioning I had recently purchased a Flex 5000A. > I was told I didn't have a "real ham radio". That using my Flex was no > better than being on CQ100 or a cell phone or the internet and other such > nonsense! Some of the folks there were downright childish about it. I mean, > I know that kind of idiocy is out there but being confronted with it first > hand was just unbelievable! Of course, there were those that had some common > sense there too but what amazed me was that some of the critics were really > very misinformed about what SDR even was. > You guys know we are going to koll ham radio as we know it right? :-) It > was comical but it was really sad in a way too. > 73, > Michael, W4HIJ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
