Just one further piece of commentary on this since it was my post below
that started the discussion. I have no idea how "old" the critics of
SDR that I ran into yesterday were. Who knows? I don't want to imply
that this is some sort of old timers vs. new blood thing. At what point
does one become an "old timer" anyway? I'm 47 and I've been licensed
since I was 15. I just think that whatever these folks age were that
they were genuinely misinformed about what SDR is. Now whether this was
because of ignorance or stubborness and being unwilling to accept new
things, I really don't know. I really don't care to argue with folks
like that either way. I said my piece about what a great radio I had and
then when the criticism started flowing in, I tried to correct some of
the misinformation but then quickly gave up because it was pointless.
You would not have believed how long after I gave up and said "to each
their own" that they continued to badger and make comments like calling
it a "flexy screech box" and try to get a rise from me and I refused to
acknowledge it. That was the childish part of it.
Age doesn't necessarily matter, pick any subject and you can have
childish immature ignorant people in all age groups.
73,
Michael, W4HIJ
On 5/15/2010 11:24 PM, Michael Tondee wrote:
Hi Hi....I'm sure you guys know I meant "kill " ham radio and not koll
it! I definitely take it with a grain of salt and consider the
source. I mean some of them are so misinformed it's not even funny.
They really have no inkling of what SDR really is nor what it can do
for you.
I heard the new Icom rig is going to come in around $4k bare bones.
Now I may darn well have that in my Flex when all is said and done but
it won't be bare bones and I won't have a radio that is already going
obsolete a week after I walk out of the store with it either.
Hams used to pride themselves on being on the forefront of
technology. If SDR isn't the forefront, I don't know what is. A lot
seem to actually shy away from technology now.
I was all set to buy a Kenwood TS-2000X when we had the money. I had
one before and liked it and wanted another because I like sat ops and
HF too. The more I read though, the more the Flex made sense. I may
well have to wait a year or more before I can afford to put the V/U
module in mine, I could have had that plus 1.2 GHz with the Kenwood
today for less money but I'm willing to wait for the V/U capability
because the Flex is so far superior to the Kenwood. I've had more fun
in the last month than I've had in years with ham radio. Even
configuring mine and solving problems has been fun for me. I'm sorry
but those guys are just idiots.
Michael, W4HIJ
On 5/15/2010 10:46 PM, Brian Lloyd wrote:
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Michael Tondee
<mat...@netcommander.com <mailto: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
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