Topband: The "Future" Of Ham Radio

[Eddy Swynar]

Hi Kent,

I respectfully disagree with you...

ANY forum worthy of its salt---like the Topband Reflector, which I like, and very much, too---should WELCOME engaging, intelligent input from its members. By doing so, it retains its vitality & relevance as an OPEN FORUM to the community which it serves. 

By turning its back on such activities, it runs the risk of choking on its own input of the "...same-old same-old" drivel, from the "...same-old same-old" select cadre of "experts." 

While I do, indeed, agree that earlier comments here about deliberate interference to the current activities of the DX-pedition bordered exactly on the quoted "...posting of personal criticisms, attacks, etc.," I think that we, as a group, only benefited a result of the discussion that ensued.

Just MY $0.02 worth...!

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ





 
On 2015-02-05, at 12:14 PM, KENT wrote:

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> Seems to me that this needs to be reviewed!!  Just My .02 worth
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> 73 de Kent
> N8ZRD
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> On Feb 5, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Eddy Swynar <deswynar at xplornet.ca> wrote:
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>> 
>> On 2015-02-05, at 11:14 AM, Anthony Scandurra wrote:
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>>> I suppose we should go back to spark gap transmitters and coherent
>>> detectors, too...  :-)
>>> 
>>> 73, Tony K4QE
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>> Hi Tony,
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>> Oh gosh no, of course not! 
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>> But by the same token, isn't it funny how the populace has embraced walking to the corner store for a loaf of bread, instead of climbing up & into the ol' reliable Dodge Ram...? And how we are all urged now to "eat healthy"," ingesting foods with a minimum of processing...? And how we are requested to "...turn off your cell phones!" before the start of a movie at your local cinema...? 
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>> One can surely go on & on with even more such scenarios, but the point is---I think, anyway!---that TOO much of an otherwise "good thing" can, in truth, be "bad" for you...and all this techno-wizardry has probably already taken us all well past the proverbial point of no return as radio amateurs, and firmly imbedded our feet into the fast-setting cement of the "appliance operator"...
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>> ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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