On Sep 28, 7:16*am, dave wrote:
Joe from Kokomo wrote:
On 9/27/2010 2:45 PM, DEFCON 88 wrote:
I prefer listening to stuff straight off the radio. It's just more fun
to twiddle the knobs. Noise, fading, and QRM enhance the experience of
pulling a station out of the ether.

I've said it before, I'll say it again:

If you like the "magic of radio", if you just want to get it in the log,
"real radio" is the way to go.

If you actually want to hear the content of the program, internet radio
is the way to go.

Neither way is inherently right, it just depends on what your goals are..

Whilst I slept, my K3 received a psk31 transmission from Antarctica and
logged the event to a map of the world. The sender in Antarctica knows
that he/she was able to hit 6 autospotters globally by looking at the
same map.

pskreporter.info

I still adjust my bandwidth, noise blanker, passband shift, and fine
tuning manually. I have to put my trace inside my 8 pole xtal filter
passband and I can't just hog the middle of the waterfall, now can I?- Hide quoted text -

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I think it's perfectly reasonable that every person can find a
different way to enjoy the radio hobby. I know we all disagree on
practically everything else - can't we at least admit this simple
concept?