Two great posts, Dave. Thanks!
73 Jim K9YC
On 7/13/2020 12:59 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
Fine, but that demarcation is pretty arbitrary. You could just as
easily go back to tube gear with crystal controlled transmitters and
regenerative receivers., but I'd be a lot of money you don't. The gear
you operate compares little in form, fit or function to anything those
folks used back then. Your current radio almost certainly has a lot of
digital signal processing already, and I'll bet you use a keyer instead
of a hand key. Quite frankly, I can just as easily imagine somebody at
his keyboard on the other end as I could if he was operating a paddle.
Most DXing and almost all contesting is already somebody simply pounding
on a function key on a keyboard.
And like I said before, it is entirely possible to preserve the bulk of
everything you mention and still use modern signal processing to make
human connections more achievable. WSJT-X just doesn't happen to be
that at this point, but that doesn't mean something else couldn't be.
Dave AB7E
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