On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Mike Stansberry <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 11/8/2010 16:22, Brian Lloyd wrote: > >> So, are any of the folks here going around the NTS on their own to work >> with their local, regional, state, or federal agencies directly? I know >> that is impolitic to suggest but I suspect there is the occasional >> disgruntled op who would like to leapfrog the enmired, entrenched, and >> embedded establishment. If talking about this openly bothers you, please >> contact me directly off-list. >> > > Sure. I don't think we could call it "going around the NTS" but we > don't "preach" the use of NTS to anyone. I've worked in the NTS > for a long, long time but I think the NTS is just too slow in moving > traffic to be useful for anything but routine traffic. > > And by the way, just so the person who made the snide remark about > "waiting until all the old folks die off" know: the NTS is not > just CW. Unfortunately, SSB is also used. But there IS an NTSD > network that moves messages across the country using Pactor 1,2 and 3. > But like I said in a previous answer, the real problem is delivery. > It wasn't intended as a snide or snarky comment so much as a realization of fact. The pool of top notch CW ops is getting smaller and smaller as time goes by. Yes, new people are learning the code and using it on the air but that pool *is* getting smaller, primarily as the expert ops die. I am becoming a Pactor proponent also. (I was going to roll my own and learned just how good PACTOR is as I tried to come up with something better.) As far as I can tell it is far and away the best error-free adaptive HF modem technology out there today. And with any phone mode you learn all kinds of new ways to mangle messages. My students (6th-8th grades) practice sending messages back and forth with the students of Wilson High School in Long Beach. (Their net is Wednesdays at 2330z on 7185kHz, guest check-ins invited.) They very quickly discovered just how error-prone phone communications is. Most are starting to gravitate toward running digital modes with fldigi. > > 73, Mike > -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 3191 Western Dr. Cameron Park, CA 95682 [email protected] +1.767.617.1365 (Dominica) +1.931.492.6776 (USA) (+1.931.4.WB6RQN)
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