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On Jun 13, 1:19 am, N2EY wrote:
On Jun 12, 4:51 pm, Radio K HB wrote: "N2EY" wrote in message .. .. I see it more as an acceptance of reality that many if not most hams today don't build their own rigs, even from kits. The "advancement of the SoTA" clause MUST remain in our basis and purpose charter, else the next step would be to DENY us the privilege of putting our experiments on the air. That's one I hadn't thought of, Hans. And it's a valid point. I might point out that technical advancement does not have to be furtherance of some basic science or physics. Indeed, I think Gordon has missed the boat a little here. He's looking at it from a RF centric view. The person that applied phase shift keying with a computer sound card with programming on a computer is also performing advancement of the art. This sort of thing is largely overlooked because many amateurs are thinking that unless it is the discovery of say one particular GHz frequency that otherwise behaves like 160 meters, it isn't worthwhile. It's a fairly mature science, and our advancements are incremental. But we've done a lot more advancement than Gordon gives us credit for. Also moving the voluntary service to the lead position is a bit of a concern. It's an argument that's a bit old, but as the ARS works out it's problems with the emergency folks, moving it to the head of the list is just possibly a bit of a step backwards. As I've noted in the past the local folks who said they were going to declare eminent domain on our repeater would have loved to point out that their work is our primary purpose for existence. |
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