Begin forwarded message:
> From: KENT <kelandis@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: Topband: The "Future" Of Ham Radio
> Date: February 5, 2015 12:14:39 PM EST
> To: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
>
>
> Seems to me that this needs to be reviewed!! Just My .02 worth
>
> 73 de Kent
> N8ZRD
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> On Feb 5, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2015-02-05, at 11:14 AM, Anthony Scandurra wrote:
>>
>>> I suppose we should go back to spark gap transmitters and coherent
>>> detectors, too... :-)
>>>
>>> 73, Tony K4QE
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Tony,
>>
>> Oh gosh no, of course not!
>>
>> But by the same token, isn't it funny how the populace has embraced walking
>> to the corner store for a loaf of bread, instead of climbing up & into the
>> ol' reliable Dodge Ram...? And how we are all urged now to "eat healthy","
>> ingesting foods with a minimum of processing...? And how we are requested to
>> "...turn off your cell phones!" before the start of a movie at your local
>> cinema...?
>>
>> One can surely go on & on with even more such scenarios, but the point
>> is---I think, anyway!---that TOO much of an otherwise "good thing" can, in
>> truth, be "bad" for you...and all this techno-wizardry has probably already
>> taken us all well past the proverbial point of no return as radio amateurs,
>> and firmly imbedded our feet into the fast-setting cement of the "appliance
>> operator"...
>>
>> ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>>
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