On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:23:42 -0500, Rod Clayton wrote: >I am also a radio-amateur. The most expensive thing I have ever purchased >was a new HF/VHF/UHF radio for $1400. For antennas I use trees for supports etc. >Amateur radio is like boating. You can spend as much as you like, but I would >not be an amateur radio operator either if I had to spend $13,000. I don't see >how anyone could write GNU software for VSE or VM at that price.
But, (I sound like I'm repeating myself) - then don't write for VM or VSE - those are the radio-amateur-world equivalents of EME, OSCARs and microwave experiments. Write software for Linux for instance, and it's virtually free. Re. boating - um, around here boating could be fairly expensive too. Perhaps unless we're talking a rowboat and two oars ? I often go sailing with friends in the Aegean - not my boat, I just rent my space. But it is pretty damn expensive if you want to captain a yacht. In time and money. btw, glad to meet another one - I'm OZ1HZV. /Per regards, Per Jessen, Zurich http://www.enidan.com - home of the J1 serial console. Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
