One more concern I have in addition to the increasing popularity of portable operations outside of the reach of an Internet connection is the fact that while it may be easy to forget, there are still a significant number of Amateur Radio ops world-wide for whom Internet is either unreliable, prohibitively expensive, or both. Anything that relies on the Internet will also, by default, exclude them from full use.
Jim S. N2ADV From: Hasan al-Basri [mailto:hbasri.schie...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, September 8, 2018 7:32 PM To: WSJT software development Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] WSJT-X 2.0 possible new mode/protocol Bravo, George! Internet help with the decode? That's downright silly. If we are going to use the internet to replace even a portion of the performance of rf, heck why bother with rf at all, and we can have infinite sensitivity? Hasan On Sat, Sep 8, 2018, 6:13 PM George J Molnar <geo...@molnar.com> wrote: While it probably is a remote possibility that the WSJT-X team is contemplating adding internet-based linkages, I want to agree with N2ADV and emphatically say “no!” to any ham radio communications protocol that relies on anything but ham radio to work effectively. Even in this day of skimmers and spotting networks, automatic rotators, and auto-sequenced contacts, the contact itself is still a radio contact, and should remain so in its entirety. George J Molnar Arlington, Virginia, USA KF2T - FM18lv On Sep 8, 2018, at 6:38 PM, James Shaver <kd2...@gmail.com> wrote: Yes but my previous question about Internet usage still stands: When I am sitting in a park or out on a snowmobile trail with my KX3 and my laptop using a GPS for time sync since there’s no cell reception there, anything that relies on the Internet will be basically useless to me. Why would we aim to exclude a growing number of such users like me? Perhaps I’m misunderstanding. Jim S. N2ADV _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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