Dee Flint wrote:

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Dee, N8UZE


No one is advocating ignoring/dismissing/discarding "something" just
because of age ... rather, the only way I would chuck technology is if
it has outlived it usefulness ... however, a museum may be suitable for
a WHOLE BUNCH of it!

There is really NO reason to develop anything to set a standard and
start using efficient digital communications tomorrow ... as I have
pointed out, Ogg Vorbis is open source code/algorithms, it offers
excellent compression and is way more than is needed for mere speech.
In fact, many open source utilities are already open to use/modification
and suitable for adaptation to amateur needs ...

It is kind of like when Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded desktop
computing on a desktop sized computer--all the hardware was already
there in place, most of the software existed as examples from other HUGE
computers which were predecessors ... so is it here, set up a simple
interface from sound card output to mike or line in on an xceiver and an
interface from rig out to sound card line in, load up some software and
off you go into digital speech--no einsteins needed, you can pull most
everything off a shelf or download it from the internet (in the amateur
tradition, would be nice if you knew enough to homebrew the
interfaces!), get a high school/college programmer interested in your
project--off ya go!

The nit-picking naysayers will keep attempting to chuck a stick in the
spokes of progress, of course this does provide MAJOR HUMOR while
SERIOUSLY degrading their credibility--use "stick chucking" at your own
discretion!

Regards,
JS