Hmmm, interesting. on the question of "What would have to change to make what we do (Amateur Radio - digital)
interesting and relevant to the typical Jr High School computer hobbiest?" 1. HF bandwidth limitations make digital HF too slow for the average Jr Hi limited attention span 2. And. if they can't talk to all their friends 3. .and it's not cool (or whatever the current expression of being widely socially acceptable), ie., "ohhh dad, that is so strange sitting behind that radio with those strange sounds all by yourself" 4. . and it has a perception of something you have to do by yourself 5. .and it isn't X-Box High school and Junior HS kids interested in HF will be very few. I think ARISS had it right on. Bring to mainstream. Bring it to school. Make it cool. Get all kids & teachers talking about it. That is my belief how we get kids interested in HF/VHF digital and other forms of communication. I wonder if anyone tested the number of hams that came out of schools that had an ARISS visit. My $0.02. Michael K3MH FYI: http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/ _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Vodall WA7NWP Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 9:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: USA: No Advanced Digital HF Data Comms > I will also ask the question again: > > If we had the ability to send high speed digital data on HF, what would > we be sending to each other that we don't do now? Anything. Everything. There's no 'technical' reason we don't do everything on HF. Discussion groups like this, pictures, favorite songs, audio/video snapshots. WL2K is right in one sense that it's good to offload as much as possible to the Internet as soon as possible. On the other hand, the "Land Line Lid" folks were right that putting traffic to the Internet stifles innovation and technology. My stock question again: What would have to change to make what we do (Amateur Radio - digital) interesting and relevant to the typical Jr High School computer hobbiest? We can talk forever about A1C's and X0Z's but in 10 or 20 years it's going to be that Jr Hi generation that's doing what ever is being done. 73 Bill - WA7NWP
