said by markopoleo:said by n2jtx:said by markopoleo:“As a matter of fact, ham radio people are often the first to adopt new technology and enjoy playing with it,"
Says the retired ww1 vet who just got around to unpacking his new ham radio his parents got him on his birthday.
[SARCASM]Nice analogy[/SARCASM]
I was doing e-mail, FTP and TELNET with TCP/IP over 2 Meter packet radio in 1990. What were you doing?
The same thing, i was hitting up BBS to play Legend of the Red Dragon. browseing Gopher on my 14.4 dialup modem. Even then I would laugh if ham radio ops protested BBL if it was available.
HAM is set to die, just a matter of when. Every year it dies a little more..thank goodness. Ham had its place, but its not in the USA anymore. No HAM was needed at ANY natural disaster since 1989 before you pull the "but HAM saves lives" card.
Hey, Marko, my new HF rig is due to arrive any day now and I could use some help making a few mods, wanna come over and help me work on it? You could work on the user interface - we really need one for linux, maybe in java and there's lots of neat stuff we could do on the dsp engine so bring all your FFT skills and don't forget that C++ compiler and a fast machine to run it on....dying hobby - I don't think so...
