--- In [email protected], "John Champa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yep... > > There is a role for Ham Radio in EMCOM, but I don't know what it is > so I just stay out of it. Some of other guys are wearing badges, etc. > > My desire in HSMM was more along the lines of digital video (ADV), but > nobody > in the WG was much interested in that... > > My dream was / is an ADV 100 kHz channel up around 53 MHz where we could > have ADV QSOs over 50 -100 miles without investing a fortune in antennas. > There are very few 6M FM repeaters in my area and the local coordinators are > happy to keep a few channels uncoordinated for our ADV use. > > John - K8OCL
John, Yep I read about that in some of the minutes, and I suppose it goes to the goal of enticing a generation of "internet kids" into amateur radio. Back in the day, I thought "worm holes" on the AX.25 networks were the cats pajamas, but they weren't and there was little of what I call real amateur key board to key board communications using them. I would note that the ARRL is worried about the graying of the hobby and the potential for spectrum sell off. I think it's a real concern, but if it happens it happens. Buggy whips went the way of DoDo, perhaps one day there will be little interest in Amateur radio and it will disappear. That will be sad, but I don't subscribe to the notion that the nature of human to human contact which forms the basis of Amateur radio should be abandoned in favor of something that attracts those with the attention span of a gnat to preserve amateur radio. Better it should die of a natural disinterest than be preserved in Red Square using lots of phony plastic and eye candy. Same objection philosophically applies to the "first mile" connectivity to the internet proposition.
