The May issue of Worldradio Magazine came today and has a big article
talking about how ham radio is going 100% digital very soon. The writer
says it will be less than 10 years before all SSB, CW and whatever is
gone and hams are forced to have digital radios. Its titled
Digitalization and starts on page 40.

policy-ham wrote:
The May issue of Worldradio Magazine came today and has a big article
talking about how ham radio is going 100% digital very soon. The writer
says it will be less than 10 years before all SSB, CW and whatever is
gone and hams are forced to have digital radios. Its titled
Digitalization and starts on page 40.

well at least a policy related topic. thank you

now that sais I have heard this before indeed digatl was suposed have
all am shortwave by now and all comercail FM but we have aviation still
using AM voice

I would almost enjoy seeing some body tring to impose a wrold wide
standard on the HF

the WRC process took what 30 ? 40 years to finaly work through the code
no code effortsand indeed ifI rember wrc are every 3 years and we ought
be having one realy soon mensing theext it could brought up is
2009-2010not likelyto pass on the first go round psushing discusion to
2013 or so and the with agreement the FCC might begin to act on by 2016
(juding by the length time varios bits of WRC-06 aree going) Fcc R&o
not slikely soner than 2017 mmeaning even if the tend reported is right
the time is well off to put it mildly

I read the article. It's laughable.

The Man in the Maze
QRL on Baboquivari Peak

Iitoi wrote:
policy-ham Wrote:
The May issue of Worldradio Magazine came today and has a big article
talking about how ham radio is going 100% digital very soon. The
writer
says it will be less than 10 years before all SSB, CW and whatever is
gone and hams are forced to have digital radios. Its titled
Digitalization and starts on page 40.

I read the article. It's laughable.
well at least it OT topic for RRAP do give the poster credit

What a load of horseshi+. Hams won't sit by and let all their radio
gear become obsolete. Analog HF is here to stay for the next 50 years.
Remember in ham radio things always always change s-l-o-w-l-y, much
like maple syrup running at 40°F. Worldradio is encouraged to print
and speculate on conjecture however this article is actually laughable.
They may be some digital on VHF/UHF but HF? Not in my lifetime.
Remember HF Packet Radio? The 300 baud technology that eventually fell
FLAT ON IT'S FACE? AMTOR and old style 60WPM BAUDOT ran circles around
packet radio. Heck I saw an AEA PK-232 at a hamfest recently going for
$15 and it still remained un-sold at the end of the day. So much 4
digital ham radio. Pooofblttttt!

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:31:36 +0000, Iitoi wrote:

policy-ham Wrote:
The May issue of Worldradio Magazine came today and has a big article
talking about how ham radio is going 100% digital very soon. The
writer
says it will be less than 10 years before all SSB, CW and whatever is
gone and hams are forced to have digital radios. Its titled
Digitalization and starts on page 40.

I read the article. It's laughable.

Pasternak starts off with some false hypotheses and then tries to use
logic to build upon them. Trouble is, when logic is applied to false
hypotheses, the conclusions reached are meaningless.

In any case, I'm not worried about so-called digital communications
becoming mandatory. Somehow Pasternak gets IBOC broadcasting confused
with what other people would call digital broadcasting (as in digital
TV), and then winds up at the very odd conclusion that the IBOC
interference experience on the broadcast bands will lead to the
enforcement of purely digital communications in the amateur bands.

Some broadcasters claim that IBOC is a disaster because it is a
proprietary system, because it causes adjacent channel interference,
and because sky wave propagation seriously degrades it. They suggest
instead a system called "CAM-D," but the FCC isn't listening.

It's kind of like the BPL issue all over again. The FCC is simply
doing what it wants to do in spite of highly qualified experts who
disagree with it.

My view is that time will eventually embarrass the politicians at the
FCC and prove that they were wrong all along in attempting to force
controversial technical changes down an unwilling public's throat.

Before I'd ever purchase all new "digital" ham equipment, I'd simply
go off the air for good. If thousands of other hams do that, then
what happens to the "pool of skilled radio operators" that Pasternak
babbles on about?

Nope. It's too absurd to ever happen. Pasternak must be living in La
La Land.

No Slimers wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:31:36 +0000, Iitoi wrote:

policy-ham Wrote:
The May issue of Worldradio Magazine came today and has a big article
talking about how ham radio is going 100% digital very soon. The
writer
says it will be less than 10 years before all SSB, CW and whatever is
gone and hams are forced to have digital radios. Its titled
Digitalization and starts on page 40.

I read the article. It's laughable.

Pasternak starts off with some false hypotheses and then tries to use
logic to build upon them. Trouble is, when logic is applied to false
hypotheses, the conclusions reached are meaningless.
cut
Before I'd ever purchase all new "digital" ham equipment, I'd simply
go off the air for good. If thousands of other hams do that, then
what happens to the "pool of skilled radio operators" that Pasternak
babbles on about?

standard luddite Ham

Nope. It's too absurd to ever happen. Pasternak must be living in La
La Land.
not to absurd to ever happen but never in the time line suggested

let try to keep an ontopic thread alive folks

agins trying to keep steve and roger from tampling every on topic
thread into the muck

well witht the noise dampened down a bit does any have any coment on
this rare on topic thread. indeed it had the virtue of being both
ontopic and something not beaten quite to death arond years ago