With all due respect, Rick, that argument works both ways.
I see why people would want to go on a DXpedition. It's quite an adventure.
I can understand certificate hunting, DXCC and all of that.
I get the people who are totally into linking VHF/UHF via the Internet.
There is a vast amount of
You’ve just defined the vast majority of DX (and DXpedition in particular)
contacts.
That doesn’t make less a part of ham radio.
Rick NK7I
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> On Jul 12, 2020, at 4:54 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT
> wrote:
>
> ... but if all you're doing is meeting the
The truly great thing about amateur radio is that there are so very many
things that an operator can do. Since I retired and downsized to an
apartment with no tower or beam in an urban environment I find myself using
those very weak signal modes. Still have the KPA500 and KAT500, but using
that
Yeah, great, reliable at or below the noise floor, but if all you're
doing is meeting the somewhat arbitrary minimum that defines a QSO,
what's the point?
I mean seriously, can you even ask about the weather? Just say "hi?"
Meh.
I'm fine with typing, but I want a real live person typing
Hi Tony,
> Tony Estep wrote:
>
> I've tried FT8 and even WiresX, but neither one seems much like radio. The
> digital qso via an internet gateway seems particularly pointless, sorta
> like a zoom call with a completely random person.
Now there's a new one. It'll take me awhile to shake this
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 3:52 PM Jim Ewing wrote:
> ...people who can express their love and
> talent for cw...
=
Yep. Well, we all have a life history with radio. Mine began with a
real-life crystal set, the kind with a chunk of galena and a whisker and a
coil wound over an oatmeal
I've been riding a motorcycle for 50 years...now I know why.
I did read Pirsig's book when it was first published, but didn't remember this.
I did remember that his friend rode a BMW and Pirsig made shims for the BMW's
handlebar mounts out of a beer can, but was careful to never tell his
Relevant to what Wayne said is this quote from Pirsig:
*“That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.
There's no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone's mind
[...] I've noticed that people who have never worked with steel have
trouble seeing this—that
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