[TenTec] In praise of older technology

[bob barnes]

well you have a good arguement but with the internet the game has changed.  cheap cheap mode things can be coded for security reasons.  dont forget the cell phone digital stuff.  

yes we are dinisors!!!!

bob k0wtz
all things are possible in Christ Jesus our savior

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On Tue, 2/25/14, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP <Rick at DJ0IP.de> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TenTec] In praise of older technology
 To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec at contesting.com>
 Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2014, 10:30 AM
 
   ** "personally I think ham
 radio has gone as far as it needs to go." **
 
 That statement reminds me of the following:
 "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
     --[by] Charles H. Duell, Commissioner,
 U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
 
 Regardless of what any of us think or wish or hope for, I
 would say "you
 ain't seen nothin' yet!"
 
 Give it 10, maybe 15 more years... we will be operating
 fully digitized with
 spread spectrum communications.
 We'll call CQ, where we won't know, and there's no telling
 what frequency
 the guy answering us will be on, but we'll hear him anyway
 with solid copy.
 And yes, CW will probably still be with us, at least if I
 still am.
 
 NEXT:  
 ** "oh there will always be a few tinkers to go into the
 digital modes but
 really for what reason except to prove up well we are
 different that's fine
 but I don't see where it can really apply on the ham radio
 bands." **
 
 That's not quite accurate.   There is
 reason;  good reason:
 The reason will be "for more reliable communications",
 including digitized
 voice modes!
 
 I caught the tail end of the AM era as an SWL in 1959, and
 the reasons I am
 now hearing rejecting the digital future remind me of the
 reasons I heard in
 the 50s and 60s rejecting SSB.
 
 Bob, that doesn't mean my heart is in it.  
 My sentiments are more along the lines of what you wrote,
 but we are both on
 the wrong side of history with those ideas!
 
 In a nutshell:  we have become dinosaurs! 
 
 73 - Rick, DJ0IP
 (Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
 
 
 -----Original Message-----
 From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
 On Behalf Of bob barnes
 
 
 well i came up in the 50s hams loved am and you had to be in
 that era to
 love and understand it.  then came collins with their
 first ssb rigs.  talk
 about resentment because the money boys all gathered
 together there was lots
 of qrming of them.  with the lack of hams on the bands
 now we could go back
 to am with no problem.
 
 oh there will always be a few tinkers to go into the digital
 modes but
 really for what reason except to prove up well we are
 different thats fine
 but i dont see where it can really apply on the ham radio
 bands.
 
 by the way when working field day the bands can close down
 for some reason
 on ssb but cw will always get through.  that old
 stinkin cw!
 
 73
 bob k0wtz
 all things are possible in Christ Jesus our savior
 
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