I think there's quite a lot of innovation going on in several areas of ham
radio -- QRP (hardware design, in particular), digital (mostly software in
various areas, including D-Star) and software defined radio. In fact, I think
you could say that even though digital ham radio is still in its infancy, this
is nearly a golden age of creative new work. It certainly is an exciting time
to be a ham.
Jim - K6JM
----- Original Message -----
From: Trevor .
To: Digital Radio Group
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2010 12:33 PM
Subject: [digitalradio] Where are our innovators?
We clearly need to encourage innovation in Amateur Radio. Many potential
innovators may be people working in the fields of Software or Communications
who are not currently Radio Amateurs.
The question is what can we do to encourage people with expertise in these
areas to join the Amateur Radio community ? I'd be interested in the thoughts
of those on this list.
While reading the article below I was stuck by the fact that an Amateur Radio
Innovation Competition had only received one entry. This perhaps indicates that
Amateur Radio innovators are in short supply at the moment!
From: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/july2010/innovation_in_ar.htm
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The South African Amateur Radio Development Trust has thus far received one
entry in the Innovation in Amateur Radio Competition from an Amateur in the UK.
Radio amateurs and technologists are invited to submit projects that will
innovate amateur radio whether it is software, amateur radio and the Internet,
the development of compact HF antennas for flat and complex dwellers or
innovation in Emergency Communications.
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73 Trevor M5AKA
