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Dee Flint wrote:
... And your specific proposals are? Just saying that one needs to avoid the old and come up with something new is useless. Concrete ideas and specific plans are needed. Dee, N8UZE Dee: Concrete and specific? OK. Let us persuade manufactures to create more transceivers which plug into our computer buses (pci/usb/etc.) Let the standard amateur amp be a 1mhz-12ghz laboratory amp. Let us see these mass produced in china and the cost drop by magnitudes. Let us see high school electronic classes assisting students get ham tickets. Let us put the focus of amateur radio where it rightly belongs, equipment and licenses in the hands of those who are making the future while living towards the future. JS |
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John Smith I wrote:
Let us see high school electronic classes assisting students get ham tickets. I teach GED classes in the local cisd system. The web server firewall blocks access to anything associated with amateur radio because it is "entertainment". www.arrl.org access is blocked right along with all the other undesirable web sites. My protestations have fallen on deaf ears. -- 73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com |
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Cecil Moore wrote:
John Smith I wrote: Let us see high school electronic classes assisting students get ham tickets. I teach GED classes in the local cisd system. The web server firewall blocks access to anything associated with amateur radio because it is "entertainment". www.arrl.org access is blocked right along with all the other undesirable web sites. My protestations have fallen on deaf ears. Cecil: I was lucky, we got the college to purchase "sheriff cards" for ALL the PCs in our computer labs. Each time a new student logs on, the OS is complete reinstalled in memory and rebooted--NO TROJANS, NO KEY-LOGGERS, NO VIRUSES, ETC. And, this is QUICK!!! There is not a site on the planet we have to "shield" our computers and/or labs from, free speech and free access to information is the foundation of our labs. The students at our institution are privileged to the most democratic form of data sharing I can possibly imagine, the value of this is demonstrated by the caliber and quality of our CS grads. However, this was a hard fought fight. With the IT management and security fighting every move towards open access ... Ignorance, control and "secrets" are the most evil of evils ... Regards, JS |
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![]() "John Smith I" wrote in message ... Dee Flint wrote: ... And your specific proposals are? Just saying that one needs to avoid the old and come up with something new is useless. Concrete ideas and specific plans are needed. Dee, N8UZE Dee: Concrete and specific? OK. Let us persuade manufactures to create more transceivers which plug into our computer buses (pci/usb/etc.) Let the standard amateur amp be a 1mhz-12ghz laboratory amp. Most of the new transceivvers do plug into our computers so that one is already done. How are you going to convince manufacturers to produce these amps. Goods live and die by supply and demand. Such an amp will be expensive no matter where or by whom it is produced. Let us see these mass produced in china and the cost drop by magnitudes. Again goods live and die by supply and demand. There demand isn't high enough for this to happen. Let us see high school electronic classes assisting students get ham tickets. This is a goal that needs more detailed thought. Who is going to lead the effort to convince the states and local school boards to add this to electronics classes? Who is going to lead the effort to have high schools even have electronics classes. None of the schools my children attended even had a classe. Who is going to lead the effort to make such a class a requirement for all high school students? Afterall you do want to reach everyone. You can't just throw the idea out there and expect some one else to pick up the ball and run with it. Let us put the focus of amateur radio where it rightly belongs, equipment and licenses in the hands of those who are making the future while living towards the future. These days it's difficult to find people really interested in pursuing technology of any kinds. Most people fall into the user category and simply expect technology to be available for whatever it is they want to do. They are not interested in creating the technology. We are becoming a society of consumers not creators. Dee, N8UZE |
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