MY POINT IS ...... You ( DIGITAL USERS ) call CW ( ANALOG ) stone age ......
You call those who enjoy SSB, AM, FM or just talking on the radio the reason ham radio is dieing ..... YOU ARE OUR SALVATION ! You by your digital modes will save the bands from the invading army of other users ... then by encrypting messages make it easy for commercial users to use the bands ... 99% of all hams use ANALOG ..... and are happy with it. If you feel you have a new and better way SHOW THEM .... However what we see is NEGATIVE comments about us boarding on we do not have the skills to hold even a novice license. The talk is 50% of all bands should be digital .... well go listen to the freeband they believe they should have 10 meters and use they argument that the HAMS are not using 10 anyway. I have been licensed 40+ years and working in radio most of it. Right now at a jail with 2,000 ICOM ANALOG radios we found digital ones had NO ADVANTAGE. DIGITAL does have a place in our hobby but so does AM and look at what they are trying to do to it right now .... WHILE you want wider bandwidth for digital modes ..... I'm right now looking is there any reason for me to go digital at all be it Death Star or P-25 which we use here at the Sheriff office. Can I justify like my 223.500 MHz station a $1,000 radio to talk to less than 25 people in the Tampa area. But will sit it out while the radio beta-max people fight it out. You get change not by degrading but like SSB did in the 50s by showing it is a better way even the hard core AM users YES AM IS ALIVE ! had to admit that it was better BUT still while AM has declined from 90% of all HF users the modes lived side by side quite well. Work on it ..... Bruce ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs