Hi Jose!!! You hit the nail right on the head. people also need to remember that, when the power, land line and cell phone towers along with the internet fail due to a catastrophe "Ham Radio will always be there and be able to get through".
73, Greg, W8GCD [EMAIL PROTECTED] No trees were killed in the transmission of this message but, several million electrons were inconvienced. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jose Amador To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: ARQ sound card modes --- Joel Kolstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If Pactor, packet Amtor, etc. all died because of > the need for a $300 TNC, > I think amateur radio as a hobby really is dying! > $300 in today's money is > nothing compared to what many amateurs paid for > their HF rigs years ago. I believe that remembering the 80's and 90's would be good. You cannot use the same yardstick in every country, there are specificities you cannot ignore. While in North America the hams used TNC's, in Germany a group of hams, precursors of the Baycom Group invented the Digicom and the Digicom modem. Even before, when the americans rode Cadillacs and Buicks, the germans used their VW beetles and the french their Citroens... I also feel a decline in ham radio. Many reasons can be invoked. A friend once told me that - "nowadays, with the Internet and cell phones, there is no need to torture yourself with learning electronics and the Morse code. Ham radio is for romantics" Lucky us that there are still romantics writing code and homebrewing equipment! 73 de Jose, CO2JA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
