Just so you know, that many of us don't drive Cadillacs or even Buicks. In fact, my wife drives a used pickup truck with over 100,000 miles on it, but it is a 4 wheel drive extended cab she wanted for the farming operation. I drive a Chevrolet Cavalier, which is a step up from what I used to drive (Chevette). Many years ago my wife and I both drove VW Beetles, (hers was that dreadful jeep looking version called "The Thing"). She had a VW squareback before that. Our experience with VW was that they had lots of design problems, were extremely expensive to repair, and the purchase prices also got way too high to justify.
I often wonder if I would go through the work of getting a ham license if I had been born in 1985 instead of 1945. Other than my continued interest in emergency communications, most everything else can be done with modern technology and computers fill in the rest of playing around with technology for a reasonable price. I have computer friends who keep asking me for some way to help them set up a community network that will work for messaging each other and also work even if the internet fails. They just are not willing to put in the minimal amount of effort to take one of my ham classes. Otherwise, they could use MURS for local neighbor to neighbor contact due to the allowance of large antennas and 2 watts on a frequency close to 2 meters. But I don't think they can use digital for that. A mesh network on 2.4 perhaps? 73, Rick, KV9U Jose Amador wrote: >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 > > >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 > > > > (Yahoo! ID required) > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > 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/
