"John Smith" wrote in message
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Dee:

Certainly everyone over 50 needs to step back and let the younger men have
a go--we are stagnated right now--I won't argue that point--it is MUCH too
obvious...


What is obvious is that the younger people are inexperienced. You fail to
realize that we need people of ALL ages involved and each contributes to the
benefit of amateur radio (or any other activity for that matter).

And since there is no limit on the number of hams, there is nothing stopping
the younger men from getting in and developing what they wish within the
technical limitations of the medium (i.e. HF cannot support ultrawide modes
without causing detrimental effects on the number of people who can use the
bands simultaneously).

What "modes" are you using? I am using a 56k modem my son modified to
modulate a transmitter... any other person able to interface an old 56k
modem to their computer can get the data... now a nice 10mbs per second
mode would be nice, where is some cheap equipment?


You do realize that a 56k modem is no use on HF. There isn't enough
bandwidth and the FCC rightly limits the speed of the digital modes. As to
what I've worked, I used to do RTTY, Amtor, packet, and some others. All
were deadly boring. I've put the equipment away to free up desk space.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE