[RFI] Wasted and Useful Bandwidth

[Jim Smith]

Hi Bill,

For a very interesting treatment of current ham contributions to 
technology have a look at http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/thesis/  This is 
VE7ZD's Master's Degree thesis.  Considerably more current than Clinton 
B. DeSoto.

Sure wish I could find my copy of 200 m and Down.  Gave me a thrill 
every time I read it.

73 de Jim Smith   VE7FO

Bill Turner wrote:

>On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:35:11 -0700, Ward Silver wrote:
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>>Sturgeon's Law says,
>>"90% of everything is crap."  He was being generous.  The tiny remaining
>>percentage that is not crap generates all of the advances that drive human
>>progress.  The Amateur Service is just one way of enabling the non-crap to
>>be created - packet radio, APRS, novel antennas, survivable ad hoc networks,
>>interesting propagation discoveries, etc. etc.  We just can't know where
>>it's going to come from, so we have to leave ourselves openings for it by
>>not occupying or consuming all resources for the currently defined utility.
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>Those things are all great fun to tinker with and use, but I doubt if
>any of them were pioneered by hams.  As far as I know, the military and
>commercial services are way ahead of us in everything you mention.
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>Not to take away from the great traditions of amateur radio, but in
>nearly every field we have been outstripped by the military and
>commercial boys.  They have essentially unlimited funding and we work in
>our garages in our spare time.  Is anyone surprised?
>
>"200 Meters and Down" is a great read and great ham history, but its
>time has pretty much passed.  Sigh.
>
>--
>Bill, W6WRT
>QSLs via LoTW
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