[Elecraft] DATA-A tx freq offset with digital modes

[Terry Schieler]

I agree, Eric.  I started in ham radio in 1962.  I love tapping into the new technology but it's not as easy as you grow older.  My son continues to beat me up over the fact that I still have my newspaper delivered every day.  Tramping through the snow and rain to retrieve it.  Sometimes it's wet and it gets thinner of content each week.  But I'd much prefer plopping into my big leather chair with my morning paper than trying to read the same thing on a computer screen.  Same goes for books, magazines and instruction manuals.  Works for me.

Terry, W0FM


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric J [mailto:eric_csuf at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 9:15 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] DATA-A tx freq offset with digital modes

You haven't adjusted to on-screen technology, because paper technology is familiar. That was the main point I saw in Guy's note. Many of us hams are hung up on analog technology, and some of us insist on imposing this on digital technology such as the K3. We want the K3 to work like the old analog stuff did/does. Older people have to relearn things to deal with new technology as new technology. Younger people who grow up on the new digital technology will likely do the same thing when they are older and technology again changes.

I wrote professionally for half my life (autos and motorcycles). I started on a manual typewriter then an electric. When the TRS-80 came out and Michael Shrayer's Electric Pencil became available, I switched completely to composing, editing and submitting electronically by about 1980. Affordable printers were crappy 40 column thermal dot matrix at first, then mostly paper dot-matrix. I learned to do as much as I could on the screen to avoid those abysmal printers. It turned out to be a good decision.

All that said, I love my analog (mostly) technology K2's. hi.

Eric KE6US