bpnjensen wrote:
On Feb 14, 9:11 am, wrote:
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
dave wrote:
This board went to **** after 9-11. Interesting how something like that
brings out the fraidy cats.

I disagree, this board as you call it, went to ****, as it were, the day the
wall street journal published that the law firm which did the first USENET
SPAM got $230,000 in business from it.

The signal to noise ratio, always low, has gotten much lower over the years,
but a good filter helps.

People come and go, and I remember the time anyone could bring a newsgroup to
its knees with 3 words: "Turkish Armenian Genocide"

:-)

Geoff.

Apparently my usenet provider filters for me as I rarely see any spam
here. I find toying with the dittoheads amusing.

I am always ready to talk radio. Unfortunately, what's left besides bad
commercial radio, un-listenable non-commercial radio, and disappearing
HFBC, is UTE monitoring, which seems to generate little interest around
here.

Ute monitoring - You think shortwave programs are becoming less
popular? Just spring the idea of an automated beacon as riveting
radio on the GP and see what happens!

Requires knowledge and equipment, usually, that goes beyond what
typical radio listeners have. I knew code once, but let it slide; and
I don't have any RTTY equipment. On top of that, it does not have the
same *romance* or humanity as hearing a scratchy broadcast signal from
10,000 km away. Don't get me wrong - I appreciate the fact that a Ute
can be just as DX-worthy and interesting in many respects, and have
thought many times about getting some nifty add-ons to make a go of it
- but it does not grab most people as will a live voice and well-
devised program across the miles.

Bruce Jensen

Those miles have vanished. All radio is local today.

You don't need RTTY equipment. You need a free program called Fldigi
which turns your sound card into a teletype. You don't need a computer
controlled receiver; it just needs to be stable and capable of tuning SSB.

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