Nothing is wrong with remuneration, but the business model is a
challenge: the platform environment is fragmented, the dynamic range
of user capability is enormous, support expectations are high, and
the total available market is small. Throw competition from free-
ware and rampant piracy on
We fundementally agree, Skip: Winlink (and all other semi-automatic
station automation software with the ability to detect busy
frequencies) should expeditiously be modified to peacefully coexist
with all other users of the amateur spectrum. Whether this is
achieved by utilizing the SCS
AA6YQ comments below
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dr. Howard S. White
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A Couple of Comments:
1.My 6 SSB Channels equivalency assumed equal distribution of
traffic over the 24 hours of the day... in the real world, traffic
tends to cluster around the
A good example of scanning is provided in the Station Description
section of Steve K4CJX's web page at
http://www.winlink.org/stations/k4cjx.htm .
Excerpting from this description,
Beginning of excerpt
Station one: a Kenwood TS-2000 at 100 watts operating on the 40,
and 20 meter bands
***AA6YQ comments below
### That's just not true, Dean. MSCOMM.DLL works correctly on Win95,
98, 98SE, NT, 2K, and XP. Yes, I left out ME; nothing works correctly
there.
Just because it works in one application, doesn't mean it will work
everywhere. Lots of software libraries are
The goal is indeed maintainable code, and that does mean that most
of the time, GOTOs should not be used. As you acknowledge below, it
doesn't mean that they *never* should be used. One must exercise
good judgement.
Ideally, one's development team is populated by engineers with
uniformly
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dean Gibson AE7Q [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 2005-04-14 13:58, Dave Bernstein wrote:
As you acknowledge below, it doesn't mean that they *never* should
be used.
Huh? I have never acknowledged that. I not only think they should
NEVER, ever be used, I
@yahoogroups.com, Dean Gibson AE7Q [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 2005-04-14 16:52, Dave Bernstein wrote:
Suppose, for example, you were tasked with updating one module of
a 3
million line of code Fortran II application still in use by a
government agency. Would you constraint yourself to not use GO
Intel and AMD have done a reasonable job of exploiting reduced
instruction set (RISC) and long instruction (VLIW) techniques within
the fundamentally complex (CISC) X86 architecture, but I don't think
there's any question that pure VLIW machines run much faster, hence
Itanium. Also note that
Sorry, I meant to say Fortran II used DO loops, not FOR loops.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Fortran II used DO loops, FOR loops. More importantly, there is no
way to prematurely exit the loop without using a GO
This is a hobby, remember?
And that's exactly the problem I have with many of the amateur
radio programs out there.
### What, that no lawyers are involved?
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dean Gibson AE7Q [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 2005-04-13 13:22, Dave
The botched transition from VB to VB.net is one of Microsoft's
larger errors, on par with designing its operating systems without
competent regard for security. The clear message to software
developers is that Microsoft can't be trusted to provide an upward
compatible path.
In case anyone's
I've not personally tried one, but early adopters report those
virtual keyboards to be unuseable. To see why, try rapidly drumming
your fingers on a table top for 10 minutes.
Its more likely that your transceiver will connect with your car's
telematics via ultra-wideband (aka wireless USB),
by bandwidth, and
with
some agreements in place, both scenarios can be resolved.
Steve, k4cjx
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
No matter how you move things around, Steve, Winlink on Pactor
is
going to QRM the QSOs with which
, Dave Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
For non-realtime message delivery, you would choose a protocol
that
QRMs ongoing QSOs over one that is slower but doesn't QRM
ongoing
QSOs?
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dr. Howard S. White
PROTECTED]
Sent: 4/12/2005 11:21:00
Subject: Re: Help, please..
Steve,
From Dave Bernstein, aa6yq:
Several times now, you have mentioned the busy detector in the
SCS
modem, and each time, I've reminded you that it only detects
Pactor
signals and is thus of no use as a general solution
the invention of the
wheel. Wireless has never been more cutting edge than it is today.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dean K. Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 2005-04-11 22:21, Dave Bernstein wrote:
That's a naive perspective. What reward do virus
You may strongly disagree with Mike's comment, and Mike's comment
may well be inconsistent with FCC regulations, but in labeling his
comment dangerous, you are reducing the likelihood that Mike and
others will participate in this discussion. Mike's message will not
induce the FCC to
: Dave Bernstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 1:17 AM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [digitalradio] Re: Win Link
You may strongly disagree with Mike's comment, and Mike's comment
may well be inconsistent with FCC regulations, but in labeling his
comment
employed by ISPs.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Since all it takes is one bad-apple ham or SWL with access to an
SCS
modem to monitor a couple of PMBOs, harvest email addresses, and
sell them to spammers, I assume that you
The Winlink discussion is timely because the ARRL directors met two
days ago to consider modifications to the ARRL's allocation by
bandwidth proposal. The original proposal would dramatically increase
the range of frequencies useable for semi-automatic operation, and
with it, unfortunately,
Sorry, John. My comments are preceded by a marker.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
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much better methods. Try it and see how it works. If
you succeed in gathering a saleable amount of email addresses, let
me
know how you bid the addresses.
Steve, k4cjx
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Since all it takes is one bad
.
Steve, k4cjx
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Those two numbers are apples and oranges Howard, as I'm sure you
know. To assess efficiency, one must compare Winlink's spectrum
consumption with the percentage of *all* amateur
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- Original Message -
From: Dave Bernstein
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 12:06 AM
In the message that initiated this thread, Howard, you asserted
Winlink now carries approaching 75% of all Ham message traffic and
yet only uses 3.8% of the spectrum. The Winlink Development Team is
to be congratulated for inventing such a popular and efficient user
of the Spectrum.
Six Sado Masochist
From: Dave Bernstein
The K3UK DIGITAL MODES SPOTTING CLUSTER AT telnet://208.15.25.196/
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--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Dave Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Just who are these Luddites you're so fond of attacking, Howard?
Finally, an chance to use the information from those seemingly
useless history classes I endured while frowning up
I use my KAM frequently; WinWarbler lets me run MMTTY and the KAM
simultaneously, providing diversity decoding of one signal, or the
ability to copy both a DX station and his/her pileup.
I also have a PK232 and an STSII-e; I use the latter for Pactor, and
(rarely and somewhat perversely) PSK31.
Spark.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, John Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What mode would you outlaw first?
At 09:48 PM 2/17/05, you wrote:
Ron:
American hams should not even have to consider whether or not they are
violating the law when they
it too
because I have seen it happen as well.
73,
Leigh WA5ZNU
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 8:17 pm, Dave Bernstein wrote:
14100 is the IARU/NCDXF 20m HF beacon frequency, Lee, and it is
continuously active! You'll find this in all IARU band plans; see
http://www.ncdxf.org/beacons.html
Howard, you've agreed that semi-automatic operation with unqualified
station automation software should be constrained to sub-bands, but
assert that this constraint should be accomplished via bandplans and
gentlemen's agreements rather than rigid legal regulations.
Let's see how well existing
Howard's position is that the FCC should remove all legal restrictions
on semi-automatic operation from the US because such restrictions can
instead be accomplished via bandplans.
Brad, you've provided an excellent illustration of why bandplans are
ineffective. Citizens of a country will freely
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