John,
Did you also notice that within a day there were 12 positive responses (not
counting any responses sent privately), leading to the following response
from the authhor of that same email you quoted:
----- Original Message -----
From: "inspections" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 01:14
Subject: [Flexradio] Ignorance enlightened!!
Many thanks to all who replied to my earlier post, what a mine of
information I received.
I now know about the Forum and Teamspeak and a whole lot more.
I have downloaded the software,but still having a problem getting the
wav files to work, but I'll get that soon I'm sure.
Thanks again all ,
I will carry on exploring
73
Keith
In other works: this reflector just works, for any question asked. There is
example after example of non-software related questions asked (see eg the
recent query about DRM/DREAM and the many responses that yielded, every
single one of them positive. If that isn't an operating question, I don't
know what is).
Did you also notice that there was not one single YES vote on setting up a
separate Yahoo group as you propose.
Needless to say, I too vote strongly NO and for just for clarification: I am
NOT a programmer.
73 de Joe - AB1DO
John Basilotto wrote:
Gentleman,
Something to think about....
There has been less than 10 "NO" posts in the last 48 hours. I've had over
30 conversations over the last few months with people who don't use the
reflector because they are intimidated by the highly technical content of
the posts on our reflector. A synthesis of their comments is "...[they
are]
simply operators and not really interested in writing or even knowing
about
software."
Despite numerous posts by others that they are welcome here, has not
changed
their mind.
It's possible to have Yahoo posts vectored here but some think that doing
so
would open the Spam floodgate. I belong to three Yahoo discussion groups;
I
get virtually no Spam because I use a Spam blocker.
The below post is what served as the catalyst in starting a Yahoo users
groups. Yahoo may not be the answer, but one thing is certain, the current
Reflect does not appear to meet the needs of the typical ham-a person who
just likes to get on his radio and talk to others. These folks may very
well be the dominant group of SDR1000 user in the future.
Original post.
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 7:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Flexradio] Excuse my ignorance but...
I've been reading the mail here for a while before deciding to buy the
SDR1K, and one thing puzzles me.
There is virtually no discussion on actual use of the radio, by that I
mean do any of you operate on air ?
All discussion is software related, which is after all what defines the
radio, but as someone who is a radio operator first, and antenna
experimenter second and computer literate about 15th on the list, there
is little to help someone like myself understand the operation of the
radio.
This isn't a negative comment as I'm sure this list is probably one at
the cutting edge of ham radio technology, but rather a request for
someone to post about actual use once in a while then I might understand
more than the 5% I do at present !!
Or is there another list that covers my queries ?
I suppose if I bought the SDR1K then I would learn as I went along, I'm
just concerned there may be too much to learn to actually use the radio
.
Keep up the good work, but remember not every Ham is a computer genius.
Some of us just like to operate the radio !!
73 de Keith VK6XH
John P. Basilotto
W5GI
Marketing and Product Manager
FlexRadio Systems
Office 512-250-8595
Mobile 512-663-6727
