What pray tell is "real ham radio"?? CW only Emcomm Public service bicycle chasers Shack on a belt Extra heavy......really hate that one and I am No lids, no kids, no space cadets......if you're old enough to remember
I wonder how many of the "anti-sdr" crowd are running "firmware" defined radios with multiple processors and can't wait for the next Super-expert III version to fix the problems with their current radio. Give me the latest SVN revision and I can fix my own ;) Thanks Flex!! No flame wars please, all hate mail direct....... Ron K0IDT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Tondee" <mat...@netcommander.com> To: <flexradio@flex-radio.biz> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 9:12 PM Subject: [Flexradio] Man I can't believe some attitudes towards SDR! > 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2875 - Release Date: 05/15/10 01:26:00 _______________________________________________ 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/
