So you're suggesting we cull the old timers? I gave a talk recently about
SDR with live demonstrations - they were converted.
In my talks I always suggest that every club should have a few SoftRocks to
lend to potential SWL's.
For me 'real radio' is homebrew, but I do admire the fine contest
You know, I actually thought about cutting and pasting it into a text
file at one time when it was going on but then I decided it wasn't worth
it to do that anymore than it was worth it for me to keep arguing with
the ignorant misinformed people.
I just let it go and then I came over here
just me. N0FJP
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From: Michael Tondee mat...@netcommander.com
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 09:12 PM
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: [Flexradio] Man I can't believe some attitudes towards SDR!
I was over in the chat that goes along with WA5KUB's
I was struck by two things at the show yesterday.
1. The average age of the attendees. Most looked like they were around
retirement age.
- not so good for ham radio's future. Some attitudes never change.
2. How busy the Flex booth was.
- very good for Flex. Nice to meet you Tim.
73
Wayne
Maybe the young guys are home working DX on their Flex radios!!! :-)
Stan (age 70)
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From: k4...@fastmail.fm
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:18 AM
To: Flex flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Man I can't believe some attitudes
How did we come to the point in this country...maybe the world, where it
is always just us or them and uninformed opinion carries more weight
than lived experience or other forms of empirical evidence? I am reading
irrational posturing from all sides on this issue. We are in this hobby
because
Lee K9WRU
- Original Message -
From: Stan wa2...@taconic.net
To: k4...@fastmail.fm; Flex flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Man I can't believe some attitudes towards SDR!
Maybe the young guys are home working DX on their Flex radios
There were many other sad comments on the reflector as well. I suppose
degreading others makes one feel better about themselves. Also apparent
there are many very lonely men out there (poor Lisa).
73 Ross K9COX
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remains as to where the truth lies!
73
Lee K9WRU
- Original Message -
From: Stan wa2...@taconic.net
To: k4...@fastmail.fm; Flex flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 5:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Man I can't believe some attitudes towards SDR!
Maybe the young guys
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:25 PM, racer racer5...@q.com wrote:
I do not have a Flex YET. I try to soak up any and all information I can
before hand and I have ran into some of the same types as you have.
There will always be a group that think unless it has tubes it's not a
radio. If it's not
Just one further piece of commentary on this since it was my post below
that started the discussion. I have no idea how old the critics of
SDR that I ran into yesterday were. Who knows? I don't want to imply
that this is some sort of old timers vs. new blood thing. At what point
does one
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Michael Tondee mat...@netcommander.comwrote:
Just one further piece of commentary on this since it was my post below
that started the discussion. I have no idea how old the critics of SDR
that I ran into yesterday were. Who knows? I don't want to imply that
This is a little off topic for this forum, however, the average age of
you, the ham operator, is climbing. It needs to be moving the other way.
You can make this happen by introducing youth to the hobby and maybe
even donating your old rig that is collecting dust to those new
operators to
Each time I check, my average age (over time) is increasing by 1/2 year
every year. Average over number (N=1) is 1 year per year.
Some folks say that age leads to wisdom. Others say, OFdom. Hams have been
complaining about OF's taking over since ~1915. You can read about it in
the old QSTs.
Does anyone have a copy of all or part of the exchange that appeared on
the WA5KUB chat screen? (Or is it even possible to copy this to a
file, to save it?) I checked in there to see if I could win a prize - -
even though I never win anything.
Michael Tondee wrote:
I was over in the chat
I was over in the chat that goes along with WA5KUB's helmet cam at
Dayton today and could not believe some of the attitudes I encountered
upon mentioning I had recently purchased a Flex 5000A.
I was told I didn't have a real ham radio. That using my Flex was no
better than being on CQ100 or a
Golly. Next thing you'll hear is a movement to abolish spark
Ya just never know
73,
Tom N4TAB
Wake Forest, NC
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On 5/15/2010 10:12 PM, Michael Tondee wrote:
I was over in the chat that goes along with WA5KUB's helmet cam at
Dayton today and could not
There's a legion of hams mired in the past. The world for them ended in
1978. (When the Wikipedia says Collins went solid state hehe)
And judging from some of the vendors I met in the Dayton flea market ..
there are some true whackers among us.
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Michael Tondee
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Michael Tondee mat...@netcommander.comwrote:
I was over in the chat that goes along with WA5KUB's helmet cam at Dayton
today and could not believe some of the attitudes I encountered upon
mentioning I had recently purchased a Flex 5000A.
I was told I didn't
I run in the Panafall mode. I now find a radio without this is not
pleasant to use. It's not informative enough and I run at 48k. I have to
resist the urge to tell people how badly they are splattering and
buckshotting.
On 05/15/2010 07:46 PM, Brian Lloyd wrote:
The interesting thing is,
Tondee mat...@netcommander.com
To: flexradio@flex-radio.biz
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 9:12 PM
Subject: [Flexradio] Man I can't believe some attitudes towards SDR!
I was over in the chat that goes along with WA5KUB's helmet cam at
Dayton today and could not believe some of the attitudes I
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Ron Kolarik rkola...@neb.rr.com wrote:
What pray tell is real ham radio??
CW only
Emcomm
Public service bicycle chasers
Shack on a belt
Extra heavy..really hate that one and I am
No lids, no kids, no space cadets..if you're old enough to remember
I know what I'm about to type is blasphemy to some and I might end up as
popular as Kurt Westergaard in Tehran.. but I think hooking a CW key to a
Flex Radio is like running wooden spoke wheels on a Ferrari.
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Brian Lloyd brian-wb6...@lloyd.comwrote:
That is
Hi HiI'm sure you guys know I meant kill ham radio and not koll
it! I definitely take it with a grain of salt and consider the source.
I mean some of them are so misinformed it's not even funny. They really
have no inkling of what SDR really is nor what it can do for you.
I heard the new
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Drax Felton draxfel...@gmail.com wrote:
I know what I'm about to type is blasphemy to some and I might end up as
popular as Kurt Westergaard in Tehran.. but I think hooking a CW key to a
Flex Radio is like running wooden spoke wheels on a Ferrari.
Hey, I
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