8 Jul
2013
8 Jul
'13
3:19 p.m.
Op 08-07-13 21:40, Michael E. Fox - N6MEF schreef:
Hams are notorious for thinking of the frequencies and boxes and technology
first. But if you think about what you can do with it first, you find that
there's not much we're allowed to do with it except talk to ourselves.
It's like my bicycle example: Everyone else gets to ride a 10-speed bike
anywhere they want. If we earn our license, we get to use a 20-speed bike
with a jet engine strapped on the back. But we can only use it in our
driveway. It's cool but not useful. To accomplish anything useful, I still
need the 10-speed bike.
Sorry to be a kill-joy, but I'm honestly looking for real, useful,
deployable applications that would drive more amateur usage, particularly
for amprnet. But I haven't seen one yet.
Michael
N6MEF
It's a common problem, not so much with the rules but more with intend
of the hams, many have become frequentie users and not experiementers.
if the experiment is the goal then the use doesn't matter anymore.
Compare it with contests, they have zero use, the only thing that
matters is the number of contacts.
73 Andre PE1RDW