[TenTec] Help me Decide ??

[Ken Brown]

One can easily be comfortable with computer programming and still prefer 
not to be dependent on a computer to operate their radio, so I would say 
the first part of your hypothesis is not necessarily true. The second 
part may be more true, particularly with regards to "digital ops", since 
digital ops these days almost always are done with a computer. If you 
need to have the computer up and running in order to read the received 
data and produce the transmitted data, then may as well control the 
radio with it too.

We can all enjoy ham radio in our own ways, as long as we are 
considerate of each other so that we avoid QRMing. I think the new 
technology is great. It is just not the way I prefer the enjoy ham radio 
at this time. That could change. If so, I will still maintain the skills 
and the equipment to do it without computers.

DE N6KB


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