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rf_engineer
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Re: ROFL
said by markopoleo  :said by n2jtx :said by markopoleo :“As a matter of fact, ham radio people are often the first to adopt new technology and enjoy playing with it," Says the retired ww1 vet who just got around to unpacking his new ham radio his parents got him on his birthday. [SARCASM]Nice analogy[/SARCASM] I was doing e-mail, FTP and TELNET with TCP/IP over 2 Meter packet radio in 1990. What were you doing? The same thing, i was hitting up BBS to play Legend of the Red Dragon. browseing Gopher on my 14.4 dialup modem. Even then I would laugh if ham radio ops protested BBL if it was available. HAM is set to die, just a matter of when. Every year it dies a little more..thank goodness. Ham had its place, but its not in the USA anymore. No HAM was needed at ANY natural disaster since 1989 before you pull the "but HAM saves lives" card. Even if ham radio never assisted in an emergency situation again, it would continue to have value. Internationally, it enables people to learn about radio communications and electrical/radio frequency engineering.
You're not making much sense and seem to be confused. Hams aren't Luddites...the core of the hobby is technology, both old and new. Per capita, you'll find more hams that have broadband than the general public. Hams would have opposed BPL back in the BBS days, too, and ironically it would have had more of a chance then. BPL won't keep up with future bandwidth demands and cable and DSL continue to grow while BPL is still back at the starting gate.
How does attacking ham radio further your interests in BPL? Even if your wish for the demise of ham radio came true, it wouldn't eliminate BPL's interference problems, it would just eliminate one of its potential interference victims. | |
Michieru2
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Miami, FL
| No form of communication is useless, if one way fails there are those other old and new methods to go back on. Communication is a major part of our lives and without it, we would not be able to do the things we do now. Radios, HAM, and other forms of communications even to the telegraph shall always have some value even after the many year's it's been through. | |
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