3 Sep
2017
3 Sep
'17
11:46 a.m.
First of all I'd really like to hear some stories about these good
things you mentioned. It might be a valuable (and interesting!) lesson
to hear.
Secondly, similar to my response to Ian's message, I'm far from
"reclaiming" these resources HAMs around the world have. They're
essential to perform the experiments and innovate by people not backed
by large companies. Even, or rather especially, if there are so few of them.
Finally, as you noticed, my message was mostly a call for better
cooperation with non government/business backed organizations that help
the world innovate/be a better place. I was using a hackerspace as an
example because I find it to be a most general term describing this kind
of organizations.
Steve L wrote:
Well if you look back to the much earlier days a lot
of good things
came from the allocation. Most of it was the work of Phil Karn and a
few others. And maybe it would be good to document that stuff, as
most of it was before my time. I know Phil and Brian Kantor were
active with the development of RFC's. This contribution was was
something that extends beyond ham radio. Phil's NOS development
really changed a lot of things. Lead to some FCC rules being changed
etc.
Again, I am not the person with all the history, but just wanted to
make a few brief points. I do hear you though, now-a-days, ham radio
in general is in a pretty sad state. You could easily replace the
words "our /8 network is of great value these days" with our allocated
frequencies are of great value these days. I do agree we really need
to reach out to the hacker/makerspace people.
I wrote this a number of years ago for our club:
http://www.k9eam.org/2011/06/innovating-makerspaces.html
There have been a small handful of us that attend their meeting and
help them with things. A few got licensed, but so far no one has
really dug in deep into the radio side yet. At least the goodwill has
been established.
Like anything in the hobby and world in general, it takes the
right(ambitious) people to make amazing things happen.
Steve
What *new* technologies has been developed
because of this network?
Which crises have been mitigated using this network? Have it helped to
spread the HAM radio "spirit" to the young people? What other good
things have this network done?
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