[AMRadio] "Have you ever tried SDR?"

[CL in NC]

This question was asked in a comment.  I have, and found it to be rather boring.  Sure, there is a lot of things you can do on RCV with all the displays and bandscopes, I'm impressed that it can, with the right software, decode every CW and data transmission from 14.0 to 14.1 and display them all at once on  the screen.  But, as a person who still likes to do 'radio', if I just discovered Amateur Radio and this was my only option, I would not be interested.  I'm thankful SDR's and computer based comm has not covered us like a virus so far, even though the ARRL seems to hope it will.  Hopefully when this new generation of hams gets bored with hamming as  just another 'app' to load into their computer, they might rediscover the history and pick up where the passing breed left off, keeping legacy gear running, enjoying radio communications the way it was created.

Charlie, W4MEC in NC