OK Folks
I’ve stayed on this Mailing list for tech info. While I got rid of my K3S I
still have my KPA-1500. But you people have just become way too strange for
me. (And to do that you have to take a giant step over what anyone considers
normal ) I’ll get my info from the website. I’m out of here and off this
Mailing list.
Ron Genovesi
[email protected]
> On Dec 14, 2019, at 6:54 PM, David Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Completely true ... all of it.
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> 73,
> Dave AB7E
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> On 12/14/2019 7:46 PM, EricJ wrote:
>> We're missing the point here somehow. Siri's answer should have been "The
>> best way to contact Helen is to pick up your phone and call her."
>>
>> Anything else is pretty much a waste of time and resources just to talk to
>> Helen. Seriously, there's a sizable investment in specialized equipment to
>> make contact via AMSAT or whatever. The contact is set up for them. Then Jon
>> and Helen wait to be told when the link is ready. If that's worth doing and
>> will attract young people, then just shoot me. It sounds terminally boring.
>>
>> Making that investment in specialized equipment can't be justified as
>> utilitarian communication because it's expensive and inefficient. If the
>> point is to contact your friends any time you want to, they are already
>> doing that with a half a dozen reliable instant technologies all accessible
>> from the same smartphone. I don't get where ham radio comes in to solve a
>> problem they have already solved. Certainly not with a system that requires
>> waiting 15 minutes for a satellite to get in position, and a Cupertino Robot
>> to set up the call.
>>
>> I don't have the answer to attracting young people to a rapidly changing
>> hobby in an even more rapidly changing world. The aspects of the hobby that
>> attracted many of us was the sheer magic of radio itself. We weren't
>> attracted to it because it let us contact our friends. Even then we had the
>> telephone for that. We were attracted to the magic. Nine times out of ten,
>> the communication part was "599 OM PSE QSL".
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>> I always heard how DX contacts would allow me to learn about other cultures.
>> Actually, it did. After exchanging signal reports, I'd look up their city
>> with an atlas or encyclopedia. But I learned zip on the air. A few
>> California Kilowatts could hog a DX station, and chit chat for a few
>> minutes, and did because they could. But the rest of us never got beyond the
>> basic exchange and fought like hell for that. But it was magic so it didn't
>> matter that it wasn't all that practical.
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>> The magic that attracted us is gone. Maybe there's new magic to be found,
>> but it's different magic that most of us with 30-70 years in the hobby won't
>> understand...and probably won't like. We are the wrong people to even be
>> considering answers but anyone expecting to make a living from the hobby
>> will have to find that new magic. It ain't instant communication and it
>> ain't the ham radio equivalent of retro turntables.
>>
>> Eric KE6US
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>> ex-K1DCK, WA6YCF, WB2PVW
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