You probably also think that all real HAMS should be using CW..... which by
the way might just disappear as a license requirement within the next year
or two

"Hank Oredson" wrote in message
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"Traveler" wrote in message
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As in most new developments there are some who cling to the old true and

What "new development"?

tried way...you know the biggest obstacle to progress is resistance to
change. It's not just in basic things but it's true in science as well
as
just trying to get an employee to do a task in a production area
different
than the way he has been doing it for years.

You, like many if not most of the IRLP appologists miss the point.

As with the digital networks, once you start rely on the crutch of
a commercial service to carry your "Ham Radio" communications,
slowly but certainly the Ham Radio portion will disappear.

Now, you argue that using echolink is not using HAM radio...I beg to
differ.

Beg all you like, you are still wrong.

The point was not "Are you using Ham Radio?" but rather "Did you
require the use of a commercial service to carry your communication?"

Just this morning while sitting at my computer I had a little rag chew
with
one gentlemen in Tucson who was walking around with his HT...was he
using
HAM radio....was I using HAM radio....was it pure HAM radio....the
answer to
the first two questions is yes and the answer to the last is NO. It was
a
marriage of HAM radio with the net. My opinion is that we will see much
more
progress in this area.
I guess another question to you is when I use one of those silver box
sets
from Kenwood, which has the circuits of the transceiver built into the
silver box but no external controls....I have to use the computer to
control
the silver box...is that HAM radio?

Wrong question.
Just another stupid obfuscation.

73
Ray Herron
WA0LQT

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... Hank

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