Topband: Stone age arguments

[DXer]

Should have said he wrote this tongue in check, as the way some people 
think/see the hobby.

Vince, VA3VF

On 2017-05-20 5:23 PM, DXer wrote:
> Roger,
>
> There is a little discussion going on on eHam right now, about the use o
> DX Clusters, and other tools. Being attached to the past, fighting
> progress, etc etc ...the standard good natured 'circular arguments' we
> see repeated from time to time, like a periodic comet. :^)
>
> AA6YQ (apologies Dave, for not asking you before cross-posting here)
> wrote the following about technologies and standards:
>
> "Technologies in use before you are ~35 years of age are standards that
> every ham should be using. Technologies that become available after you
> are 35 years of age make things too easy, enable ignorant unskilled ops
> to succeed, and destroy the hobby."
>
> He is so right in his analysis.
>
> 73 de Vince, VA3VF
>
> On 2017-05-20 4:09 PM, Roger Cooke wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>>
>>   I have been following this argument with some amusement. Only because
>> it can relate to just about any situation that we can think of.
>> Example 1
>>
>>   I got a teleprinter in 1959 and put it on the air. I was told in no
>> uncertain terms that the awful jingle-bell QRM was not amateur radio and
>> not wanted on the bands.
>>
>>    Fast forward to 2017. It's the most used data mode there is!
>>
>> Example 2
>>
>>   I built an SSB exciter in 1962 and was told that no way should that
>> duck-talk be on the amateur bands. It was not wanted and should be
>> banned. Look at the bands now. How many AM stations do you hear?
>>
>> Example 3
>>
>>    I built the TNC-1 first packet board in 1982. I was accused of QRM on
>> the bands ( VHF and HF ) that was not wanted and would not last.  OK, it
>> did get knocked out by the Internet, but so has a lot of other stuff and
>> it did last for a number of years culminating in me running the UK
>> Satgate. Yes, I was very sad at its demise.
>>
>> Example 4
>>
>>    A local station has been active on EME for years with his home-built
>> 12 x 12 array of two metre yagis on a massive construction in his back
>> garden. Now you can do EME with JT65 and one yagi. That battle is
>> on-going and gets quite heated!
>>
>> ------------------------------------
>>
>> What will be next?  Contests? A thorny subject right now.................
>>
>>
>> 73 de Roger, G3LDI