On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Leszek A. Szczepanowski wrote:
[about the S5 high speed radios]
> All ok, but you probably did not notice that all the
> hardware for the high speed links like 1,2288 Mbps
> is very expensive! And not publically accessible!
> If I want to have 1M2 link I have to produce it
> by myself. I can't buy it! But I want to! Where
> can I buy _complete_ 1M2 link to use it at my gateway?
Is this your idea of amateur radio? Everything has to be ready made for
you? It must cheap and available at your local grocery store? And you
shouldn't have to have any knowledge or skills in radio engineering? Well,
try CB then, there you don't even _have_ the option to build anything on
your own.
> I'm not electronics engineer and don't have special
> hardware and elements needed to made these very
> precision 10 GHz or even 23cm radios.
It is a fact that you do need access to some measurement equipment to tune
such a radio. And getting components can be difficult these days. But when
I was building my first 80m CW tranceiver I found it difficult to find the
parts and it _was_ difficult to tune until I got access to some measuring
equipment. Anyway I found the components, I found access to measuring
equipment (I was ~14 at that time), I got the radio working and I would
not call myself much of a ham if I didn't.
> I tried to talk with Matjaz via packet but he is very busy, and his
> friend told me: "Everything is on the WWW". I was confused :(
Well, much of the Slovenian work is pretty well documented at
http://lois.kud-fp.si/hamradio/hid.html. Kits would be nice but you can't
have everything. Quite a lot of active people are needed to produce a kit
and it will never happen if people just sit and wait for somebody else to
do all the work.
> I want to buy 1M2 link
> like people buys refrigerators, TV, and other equipment.
> And of course hardware is not enough! Hardware should
> coexist with good software made for it.
> [...]
> This is my opinion for Packet Radio in Europe, now.
> PR, where are you going to... ?
If this is a general opinion of masses, I can only ask where is amateur
radio going?
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