"there is no better time to be a radio UI homebrewer"
Oh, I do not agree with that!
I agree it is a good thing that people continue to home brew anything at
all, but I can't see how the thrill of programming a computer board or radio
that they bought can compare with the thrill of hearing that first radio
station when I built my first crystal radio in 1958, cat-whisker and all.
Or with building a 20m CW transceiver from a schematic and magazine
article....
Weeks of collecting parts, 40 or 50 hours of soldering it all together, then
finally turning it on and hearing radio signals...
Then sitting down in the living room with the little rig running off of a
battery and using a home brew indoor magnetic loop antenna just 3' in
diameter, and working about 20 stations around Europe in a contest, the
first 30 minutes on the air. This was excitement.
I built my first computer in 1977, also from an article in a magazine.
Gathered the components and soldered it together, just as I had done with
radios. And I was proud when it worked. But that didn't match the thrill of
hearing radio stations, at least not for me.
I don't want to take anything away from the people participating in the
makers movement, but let's not sell the past too short either. These makers
could still build their own radio today if they wanted to. They have other
interests.
73
Rick, DJ0IP
On 10/31/2014 11:54 PM, Neil Martinsen-Burrell wrote:
> it is also true that there is
> no better time to be a radio UI homebrewer. There will be a great
> deal of innovation on this front in the next 10 years. Kudos to
> TenTec for giving us the Rebel and allowing innovation to thrive again.
>
>
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