RHF wrote:
On Aug 25, 4:31 pm, Dave wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:20:53 -0700, RHF wrote:

Ham Radio 'existed' before the so-called "Sound Card".
For that matter Radio was 'history' way before the "Sound Card".
radio just listen ~ RHF
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- The point of amateur radio is to not "just listen",
- but to transmit as well. There are several "digital"
- modes that use a PC sound card, and these are
- a hoot. You can "listen" to PSK31 very easily:
-
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQpBGh9RMEQ
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- It's quite the sensation; you can work the world
- with 10 Watts or less.

the point of shortwave radio listening (swl) is to . . .
listen to the radio - be it voice or code ~ RHF

The word "listen" doesn't appear in the name of the group. The hobby is
about technical skills. Any mouth-breather can buy fancy radios and
string up a wire and hear a 100,000 (and up) Watts radio station from
the other side of the world; it takes a lot of skill and a lot of luck
to see someone typing on a keyboard in New Zealand working the Pacific
Northwest on 5 Watts. PSK31 is more efficient than CW.