[AMRadio] "Have you ever tried SDR?"

[rbethman]

All great and wonderful.

My experience is interference from flat panel computer displays.

Whether I use notch filters, Noise Blankers, and other such, the flaming 
computer gets into EVERYTHING!

It is NOT being someone whom is wanting to be in the *past*.

I also have a neighbor that lives a couple doors away with a huge Plasma 
TV that is a royal PIA!

I've spent a career post Military career, that was nothing BUT IT!

I have NO desire to keep putting around with computers.

The only exception is to maintain contact on various reflectors that 
interest me.

Yet I do NOT - [wallowing in how it was back in the "good old days" is 
never a healthy exercise - "you can never really go back and repeat the 
past".]

My instance is that I got licensed a LOT later than the majority of 
folks on this and the other lists that I subscribe to.  I became 
licensed in 1980.  So I did NOT have this *past*.  I started with CW and 
SSB.  Soon after I went to AM out of curiosity.   I've never regretted it!

I'll be on AM for as long as I live!

YMMV

Bob - N0DGN

On 6/19/2013 10:48 AM, manualman at juno.com wrote:
> There are probably many more amateurs who enjoy the virtues of
> plug-and-play and SDR-type radios because it gets them to do what they
> want to do - play radio and make contacts. They have no interest in
> constantly diddling with knobs, watching multiple meters, venting
> periodic smoke, and screwing around at the workbench for endless hours
> trying to make something work for more then an hour. Great AM listening
> and great AM transmitted audio can be had with the majority of these
> modern radios. If your hobby goal in life is to hold a soldering iron in
> your hand for hours every day, more power to you, but I prefer the ease
> of getting on the air quickly and making contacts when ever I want
> without the constant diddling with knobs and meters and smoke.
>
> Change is good and refreshing; wallowing in how it was back in the "good
> old days" is never a healthy exercise - "you can never really go back and
> repeat the past".
>
> Pete, wa2cwa
>