Topband: Radio In A Box

[Dick Bingham]

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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 13:15:37 -0600
From: W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu at w0mu.com>
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Great Engineering by AA7JV
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Elon Musks' starband internet could open up the entire world to the
internet and change DXpeditions forever.? And a few will think it is the
end of the world kinda like that digital mode that has yet to kill off
the hobby.

What will the ARRL think of this?? They are slow to change with the
times.? I would expect push back especially by those that are already on
the top and do not want other to reach that plateau.

W0MU

On 4/5/2021 12:55 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> At the most recent Visalia in 2019 (and later at Dayton, I think),
> George presented two feats of engineering excellence that blew me
> away. First, his "Radio In A Box" has the potential to revolutionize
> DXpeditioning to islands, drastically reducing their cost, the number
> of hams needed, man-hours spent on the island, and the resulting
> impact on the island's natural state. All of this has the potential to
> make it far easier to obtain permissions from authorities.
>
> Second, his observations that during DXpeditions, topband openings
> tend to occur on one night out of a couple of weeks, and that since CW
> and FT8 are the dominant modes for weak signal work, both need to
> active whenever there is the likelihood of propagation (that is,
> between the daylight sides of the terminator), led him to devise a
> system to achieve that.
>
> Both of these achievements are described on the qrz page for C6AGU. If
> you've missed them up to now, by all means check it out!
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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Back in the mid-1970's I used a KIM-1 development kit to make a
CW/RTTY-contest and beacon controller. It was a four button
system that only SENT info with me copying CW and the RTTY
machine printing out received copy.

I submitted an article to ARRL/QST and they rejected it saying
such a device provided an unfair advantage to the user.

Boy, did they get that one wrong!

73  Dick/w7wkr