[TenTec] Some advice, please

[John Bescher]

We have come a long way from rock bound separate transmitters and tube technology, but nothing compared to the advances in the past ten years.  


Capabilities not even dreamed about even as recent as 10 years ago...  


Remote Stations  for rent, full featured and on mountain tops, operated from your home; 
Skimmer and whole band displays of not only signals but call signs; 
Reverse beacons all over the world reporting on your signal strength;  
Smart logging programs that even show the photographs of the contact and names, addresses using web databases and past logs, Partial call sign lookup based on worldwide activities of other hams;  
DX monitor and similar computer applications displaying who's on by frequency, call sign and country.  
Station software controlling rotors, transceivers, modes, frequencies.  
LOTW for keeping track of DXCC and entities worked and not worked.
Propagation software predicting time, places and frequencies. 
Digital Modes and DSP;  most high scale modern rigs now utilize computer technology.


These revolutionary concepts and capabilities are mostly attributed to the use of computers, software and networks.  


I believe there was an article in CQ Magazine several months ago about the advances in Amateur Radio over the past 10 years.  I would use that as my basis for the presentation.  


Talking about old Collins gear, Heathkits, and manufactors' breakthroughs is interesting and nostalgic, but nothing compared to the exciting advances within the past 10 years.


And that's my two cents.


73....John Bescher, N4DXI


 



-----Original Message-----
From: JAMES HANLON <knjhanlon at msn.com>
To: tentec <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Thu, May 19, 2016 3:34 pm
Subject: [TenTec] Some advice, please

Y'all,
 
I've taken on the job of talking to the Albuquerque Hamfest this coming August about significant advances in amateur radio technology from the beginning of radio, Marconi 1894, to the present.  I'm up to the early 70s so far and I have just added the advent of Solid State Transceivers to the list, using the 505 Argonaut and the Triton I and Triton II as examples.  I'm a little fuzzy on things more modern than that.  Obviously I should include things like digital modes and software-defined radios.  What would you folks suggest I should include, and can you cite any Ten-Tec or other gear that would illustrate the particular advance?
 
Thanks a lot for your help.
 
Jim, W8KGI
 		 	   		  
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