The Old Signalman, seeing the new-fangled telegraph poles and wires stretching off to the horizon, threw down his semaphore flags in disgust.
-- Mike Flowers, K6MKF, NCDXC - "It's about DX!" > On Mar 3, 2018, at 3:57 PM, William Levy <[email protected]> wrote: > > As an old dog I am sorry to see that FT8 has become all the rage. > I grew up with a few vacuum tubes and a dipole. AM carrier controlled, 5 > tube receivers. Loved CW when I had very little. Love SSB with big antennas > and towers. > > FT8 changes the game. No more rag chews. So this is what DX has become. No > big power, no big antennas. Someone will write an app that will tell the > radio to keep calling cq and log contacts. V.2 of the App will record new > prefixes and club log it. > > I may feel critical as I write this but the future is not mine and all is > fair in love and war. > > Sincerely, Bill N2WL > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
