RE: [digitalradio] Re: Anti-Digital Hams

2009-03-09 Thread Matt Ashe
ot the best place to gripe. Flames automatically extinguished with the delete key. 73 Matt KI6NCU in Northern CA. KI6NCU-1 on 145.050 -Original Message- From: John Simon [mailto:jrsi...@ozemail.com.au] Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 8:09 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Anti-Digital Hams

2009-03-08 Thread John Simon
vid Little" To: Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 12:51 PM Subject: RE: [digitalradio] Re: Anti-Digital Hams > > -Original Message- > From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of Christian Crayton > Sent: Sunday, March

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Anti-Digital Hams

2009-03-08 Thread David Little
-Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Christian Crayton Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 9:05 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: [digitalradio] Re: Anti-Digital Hams --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Brent Gourl

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Anti-Digital Hams

2009-03-08 Thread bruce mallon
Your response above does not clarify your original post; if anything, it increases the ambiguity   NO IT ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION .   Same old stuff its digital or the highway .   Have a nice day   Bruce

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Anti-Digital Hams

2009-03-08 Thread bruce mallon
EVEN the arrl is calling us LEGACY modes .. the excuse is it is used in industry for anolog modes.   Now It seems to me that if they want to matain members and digital; want to win people over this is not going to help .. --- On Sat, 3/7/09, Dave Bernstein wrote: From: Dave Bernstein

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Anti-Digital Hams

2009-03-07 Thread Rick W
Although I don't necessarily accept the idea that any of the modes, digital or analog, can be considered inherently evil, my main concern is whether they have value for various amateur interests. Clearly, ragchewers, contesters, weak signal folks and all other niches have their specific mode(s)

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Anti-Digital Hams

2009-03-07 Thread bruce mallon
I strongly disagree. Your post is just another variant of "everyone should operate the way I do". While you are free to espouse this philosophy, we are free to ignore it.   Hummm   Then you oppose using LEGACY mode users when talking about CW and SSB ham's ?    

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Anti-Digital Hams

2009-03-07 Thread Dave AA6YQ
re "WinLink 2000 and ALE are a cancer to amateur radio. They are evil because they represent machines talking to machines, and we have too much of that in this world already." I strongly disagree. Your post is just another variant of "everyone should operate the way I do". While you are free to es

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Anti-Digital Hams

2009-03-07 Thread Brent Gourley
But humans provided the emcom traffic to the machines, and the machines at the far end of the communication deliver it to humans. Without the humans, there is no "communication." For genuine, this-is-no-drill emcom, we should use the most effective mode possible. Effective being the balance bet

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Anti-Digital Hams

2009-03-05 Thread Rick W
What I would like to know is what "negativity and misinformation" was even mentioned. From now on lets be fair about making such statements by actually quoting the alleged negative and misinformed statement so the rest of us can make an informed decision whether such claims are even appropriat