Re: [digitalradio] Re: 6 meters digital

2007-06-05 Thread Joe Serocki
440 is valuable band because of the propogation. I agree it's time to do something new with 6, but I don't think there's much of a move to steal that one back! On the other hand, who knows, if we continue to not use our alloted space there are indeed a lot better uses for it, I don't think

Re: [digitalradio] Tearing Down USA's Data Wall (300 symbols/second)

2007-03-24 Thread Joe Serocki
From my time in Ham Radio: - Going from Class A to a structured licensing was the end of Ham Radio. - Giving Novices 10m voice was the end of Ham Radio. - Giving Novices 220 was the end of Ham Radio. - Dropping CW from structured classes to 5WPM was the end of Ham Radio. -

Re: [digitalradio] Re: CQ CH?

2007-03-20 Thread Joe Serocki
Here Here! Even back in the day when I ran RTTY on a HW-101 (really) people on digital modes were more polite, less antagonistic, and in my humble opinion, had better operating practices. CW came second, and phone a LONG third. Want to reinforce this? Listen to the loonies on 75 Phone, 14.275,