On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:12 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. > That is true and it is not new. That is what the old-timers said about CW, SSB, computers doing RTTY, packet radio, and now SDR. I was once accused of trying to ruin amateur radio because I was experimenting with TCP/IP over packet radio. :-) > 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. > The interesting thing is, it hasn't really started yet. The first inkling was CW-skimmer. It will get really interesting when there is better integration between the IF DSP, the modems, and the CODECs. But, yeah, we are on the leading edge. I know that I find using traditional radios annoying now. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL _______________________________________________ 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/
