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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 00 01:30:44 MET
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From: pa2aga@pe1mvx.ampr.org
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sailboats today may be called a sad attachment to an obsolete technology when
it comes to transporting goods and people from one shore to another. Still
sailing has its following. The sailor may employ some of the goodies of modern
technology (GPS navigation and composite construction materials) yet the basic
nature of sailing remains the same. It takes skill, practice and perseverance
to master the art of piloting a sailing craft. The transportation goods and
people from one shore to another is no longer the main objective of sailing.
The sailor wants to experience the motion of the sea, the wind in the rigging
and the challenge they can bring him. It’s an art form in a day and age were
art is no longer appreciated.
Lets consider the Ham operator to be likened to the sailor. It is the journey
which is the end to it self. It is the practice of the art of operating. There
can even be an element of person-to-person competition as in a yacht race. In
this analogy, I would liken the Internet User to the owner of a Japanese
automobile. The car originated on a distant shore and was transported over the
seas in a very large impressive ship to be delivered to the Internet User. The
Internet User proclaims himself to be a sailor and asserts that it is foolish
for sailors to hang onto the past when the bright future is found moving about
in Japanese cars. Strange how the sailors aren’t warming up to this new chap.
If you can hold your breath long enough, all this fuss will evaporate. The
commercial sector is working as fast as it can to offer Internet Users a
cornucopia of wireless digital communications options and will make them as
painless as possible. Wireless high-speed Internet access is just a heartbeat
away. When this becomes available, the Internet User will have no cause to
stick with the perplexing community of Ham Radio Operators. He can proclaim
that Ham Radio has failed him and that it is doomed to oblivion. Ham Radio
Operators will no longer be challenged to accept the Internet User into the
Ham
community.
In the longer picture, all the resources allocated to Hams in the VHF/UHF/SHF
regions will be lost to the commercial sector. Money will win the war for
these
limited resources and the Internet User will be burning up the radio waves
long
after the Ham has been evicted.
But somewhere on the stormy seas (solar flare hitting the ionosphere) there
will still be sailboats (HF radios) being piloted by skilled sailors (Ham
Operators). Only they will know what they truly have.
Jeff Goodspeed – KA9S
Jeff Goodspeed wrote:
> I like Will's position. I too feel the "magical" element of global
> communication without using wires. I enjoy being at the "mercy" of natures
> interactions of sun and ionosphere.
>
> I also see a cultural element in this topic. Communication via the internet
> implies a total dependence on society with the subjugation of the
> individual in the act. No one can communicate from point A to point B via
> the internet without tens of thousands of other people showing up to work,
> keeping the multi billion dollar network humming. The internet communicator
> hits the carriage return key which in turn grovels to the Internet Service
> Provider for permission to have the puny little packet transported over the
> behemoth. The sender of the information can take about as much pride in
> completing the communication as he can in forcing the sun to rise in the
> east each morning.
>
> Point to point radio communication on the other hand is more an expression
> of rugged individualism. The radio operator is in control of the
> communication process and only needs the cooperation of the receiving party
> to complete the transaction. Entire societies can rise and crumble without
> impacting two individuals communicating via radio.
>
> Which of these two would give you something to feel pride in?
>
> Will wrote:
>
> > Except the Internet is not radio, and it is not a radio. After all this
> > time, radio is special and "magical" because, look 'ma, no wires! That
> > my signal travels from my antenna to that of another ham on the other
> > side of the world using nothing made by man still amazes me. And in
> > order to make efficient and reliable use of radio, one has to learn
> > about and monitor weather--both the terrestrial and solar varieties. It
> > isn't the same as the internet at all, and can't be. For all the touted
> > reliability and ease of internet communications, it doesnt take the
> > place of radio as a science and hobby. It takes the place of the
> > telephone, actually. The internet is wonderful, but it doesnt replace
> > radio--the mistake is that the sole, or even primary goal of ham
> > communications is to talk at will to a specific other person without
> > fading and noise. We are at the "mercy" of the sun and the
> > ionosphere--and glad of it!
> >
> > de WIll KD7BFX
> >
> > horseshoe7 wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > It doesn't seem to bother you that the sounds of your voice go
> > > thru the radio using electrical signals. Why should it bother
> > > me how the signals from my 2m RADIO gateway link get to the
> > > other guy... using ham radio? You just have to look at the
> > > Internet as one big radio.
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 21:18:41 GMT
From: horseshoestew@my-deja.com
Subject: Forget HF & CW - Think Digital
In article <smt0atunnd6184@corp.supernews.com>,
"Steve Sampson" <ssampson@usa-site.net> wrote:
>
> > No N0MHS in any of my old logs.
>
> Oh boy, I'm rolling on the floor... stop! stop! my sides are
hurting...
>
> Only REAL Hams are in his logs, but he only tells you who isn't in
> them, not who is. I know for a fact that his callsign and 15 SSID's
> are the only thing in there... (he has a bunch of nodes that go
around
> in circles).
What does that make him - a circle jerk?
--
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