[AMRadio] "Have you ever tried SDR?"

[Mike Sawyer]

I am with Bob on this one. Software/digital radio? Give me a break! I was 
working with this kind of crap in the 80's. Used digital data to bring F-14 
Tomcats on a pitching and rolling deck. They would trap the target wire, 
(#3) every time, (Link-4A/ACLS). AMTOR? Cripes we got a data link from NORAD 
and was tracking everything that was in the air, including satellites that 
were in a 512 mile vicinity, (Link-11). SDR? (Yawn!). You can have it, Pete! 
Take it all for all I give a rat's pa-toot about.
Mod-U-Lator,
Mike(y)
W3SLK
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rbethman" <rbethman at comcast.net>
To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] "Have you ever tried SDR?"


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