On 11/08/2015 11:41 PM, Mark Wallace wrote:
It really comes off as being yesterday's skill.
A subscription to QEX would broaden your mind:
http://www.arrl.org/this-month-in-qex
I admit to having difficulty following the math laid down in the
articles describing recent advances in constrained-bandwidth voice &
data encoding, but it ain't your grandfather's amateur radio and hasn't
been for quite a while.
K1JT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hooton_Taylor,_Jr.) got a
Nobel for his work on pulsars, but isn't above writing code that
revolutionized amateur radio's weak signal communication ability, making
moonbounce & meteor scatter links possible for folks with ordinary
antennas and radios:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSJT_%28Amateur_radio_software%29
his system is useless if there is a power failure.
The volunteers always go out, but sometimes they don't come back:
http://www.qsl.net/ab2qv/tsunami.htm
That's what disaster preparedness really means, should you have the
impression all hams are dilettantes yakking it up on 75 meters with boat
anchor radios.
There is no harm in it but why?
My guess: the same impulse that drives otherwise sensible folks to
install Tiny Core Linux or mess around with Slackware, when any fool
knows Ubuntu + Unity is the future of Linux. [wince]
As far as amateur radio goes, anyone interested in getting an answer
from someone with current knowledge should ask one of the (many) hams in
the LUG or drop in on a Mt Beacon Amateur Radio Club meeting:
http://wr2abb.org/home/. Each ham will have a different answer.
Or drop in at SqWr some Tuesday evenings, where the Mighty Thor has
begun work on a fractal antenna and is even now trying to convince me of
its bandwidth. At its largest extent, though, it won't pose any risk to
his new neighbors...
--
Ed
softsolder.com
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