[TenTec] "End of an Era"

[Gary Hoffman]

Well....actually, you CAN plug an antenna into your soundcard.  Just use the
appropriate connector.

Of course, it will be useless.....


I'm sorry....I must be insane....had to make that joke.

73 de Gary, AA2IZ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t at comcast.net>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] "End of an Era"


> > -free software. Personally, I prefer free stuff because, as t
> > Linus said "software is like sex, it's better when it's free"
>
> I like free stuff, too.   Wonder if it's worth making that argument to my
> Mercedes dealer and see if I can get one for free.
>
> > wolonteers who develops software for fun.
>
> I've had the misfortune of downloading and trying to use a variety of
"free"
> and "for fun" software.  "Open source" doesn't equate to free.  Red Hat's
> Linux Enterprise is technically "open source".  Last time I looked, it
> wasn't free.  You still get largely what you pay for.  There are
exceptions
> to everything, of course.
>
> > much faster one, you have to buy whole rig, Orion II for
> > example. This is some kind of customer lock-in, I should say.
>
> An SDR (at least as of this writing) still has a substantial component of
> proprietary hardware associated with it.  You can't ignore that.  You
can't
> plug an antenna directly into your "soundcard" yet, either.  No free lunch
> anywhere.
>
> Grant/NQ5T
>
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