[Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

[Fred Jensen]

Somewhere back in the 80's [or so, memory fails me these days], I got 
several of the IEEE group Proceedings, among which were Info Theory and 
Vehicular Technology [my employer was doing a lot of the latter which 
involved me in a lot of the former].  I read one paper, from Japan I 
think, about this idea of having very low power radio sites that 
"portable" phones could talk to, and a computer control system to manage 
the hand-off to other sites as the caller moved.

I said to my cube-mate, "Have you seen this?", and he said, "Yes, what 
do you think about it?"  I replied, "That'll never work, and besides, 
who would want to carry one of those phone bags around with them 
everywhere?"

That's my answer to Jim's question.

I also read about this US DoD program to put multiple satellites in 
orbit to allow ground devices to determine their position.  I figured, 
"DoD?  This will be a huge boondoggle."  LORAN-C is now defunct.

Being in the comm/computer/defense biz, my wife asked me if we wanted to 
sign up for this thing called an Automated Teller Machine card at Wells 
Fargo.  I suggested we not bother, just one more card, "Believe me, this 
isn't going to catch on, who wants a machine giving them their own money?"

The only time I've been an early adopter is with Elecraft [K3 #642], and 
not even then all the time [K2 #4398].  And "computing in a cloud" 
really sounds like Star Wars although my Kindle Fire at least thinks it 
has it's own cloud.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2013 Cal QSO Party 5-6 Oct 2013
- www.cqp.org

On 6/21/2013 4:05 PM, Jim Lowman wrote:

> I have no idea what caused the change.