[BC] Amatuer radio spectrum

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

I was a licensed amateur for many years (K1KLR, W3CBD)
and in fact put the first ham television station on the
air in the northeast from the top of Mt Tom at WHYN-TV's
TV transmitter site...so I do understand that it hurts
when technology changes.

I got out of the ham-as-a-hobby stuff when I was devoting too
much time to it and I found that the new breed that were
nothing more than licensed CBers, where the OM or YL with
the biggest pockets bought the best and most powerful rig,
had nothing in common with me. That doesn't mean that
I disowned my ham-radio buddies. Now, when I want to
talk to them, I go over to their house often by airplane.

When one talks about technology, one's perspective shouldn't
enter into it. AM, FM, and CW are obsolete. We don't use them
to communicate with the Mars lander, for instance, because
they won't work. Although communications satellites
still use obsolete communications methods like QAM as
a customer requirement, for the most deep space communications
use more modern technology.

When you fire up your 2-meter 3-watt push-to-talk to doubly your
spectrum pollution using your repeater, you just punched a 1-second
hole in the spectrum that could have transferred the entire
contents of your PC hard disk (if the disk had been fast enough).

Simplex (push to talk) has the capability of being very efficient.
when you press the button, what you say gets digitized and stored.
At the instant you release the button, your message gets sent
as a 800 nanosecond burst which gets automatically repeated
until it gets through. That's tomorrow's technology.

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: towers at mre.com

WHOAA to you Richard...

You are clearly not a licensed amateur.  This is a hobby.  Not main stream
communications like the interstate reference you cited.