I guess the joke is wasted on most here, so here's the explanation: it's "What hath God wrought", which is the first Morse code message ever sent, with God replaced by Woz to refer to computer stuff. Very a-propos.
Oh and I forgot, Morse code operators use many many abbreviations, as well as "Q codes", that put SMS-style shortcuts to shame. See at the bottom of this page for a fairly complete list.
Starting from scratch, one can reach over 20 words per minute solid copy in a matter of months, with only, say, an hour of regular training every day. 20 wpm isn't considered particularly fast amongst morse code operator: the EHSC for example requires its members to copy 60 wpm for 30 minutes. While this is at the extreme end of the spectrum, 20 wpm is attainable by anybody with a little patience and time.
Go here and try it out yourself, over the internet. You'll see 20 wpm is waaay faster than any SMS messaging.
How is it done in Europe, Africa, Asia, S. America, and in Austrailia? How is it working out for them? I hate to jump to privatization without a prescident.
The US tend to set precedents in almost everything, and the rest of the (first) world tries to follow on the principle that "if the US do it, we should too".
So you won't find precedents in most other countries. What you can analyze however the effects of the US' current experiments in extreme capitalism, which are basically leading to the privatization of commons.
So, the radio spectrum is a common, Michael Powell is a crazy right-wing SOB, so the radio spectrum is bound to be privatized some day. Who will benefit? corporations and the government. Who will lose? everybody else, the little guys. That's you and me.
Welcome to a world where corporations can own public commons. I'm not looking forward to having my already-sorry-looking slices of the spectrum be reduced to nothing at all, and the users of the neighbouring slices blast full power and ruin mine. Do your DX now, you may not be able to for very much longer...
Since bluetooth is in the 2.4GHz band, hams can probably use boosters of up to 200W legally, just like with WiFi.
We here at the radioclub were able to cover considerable distances with decent directional WiFi waveguides and 10W amplifiers. I wonder if bluetooth would fare as well... Hmmm, something to play with during the holidays:-)
I own/maintain several very specialized programs.
One of them, CWirc, has a known target of maybe 15 people, and another 50 occasional users. And everybody who uses the program seems to like it a lot, because:
It caters to their specific, specialized desire
I have time to implement or improve things by request, to fit someone's wish almost to a tee (meaning, I don't have to make compromises)
The project is so low-bandwidth and simple that I can make it evolve exactly like I, and the few users, want, at the pace I want
So, while big projects with wide audiences are good, small (and also very small) ones with a very small audience have their place too. That's what makes open-source / free software work, because Microsoft and the likes don't have time or money for smaller projects, and big generic ones often don't do what people want.
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That was funny:)
I guess the joke is wasted on most here, so here's the explanation: it's "What hath God wrought", which is the first Morse code message ever sent, with God replaced by Woz to refer to computer stuff. Very a-propos.
73 de F8EJF
Oh and I forgot, Morse code operators use many many abbreviations, as well as "Q codes", that put SMS-style shortcuts to shame. See at the bottom of this page for a fairly complete list.
Starting from scratch, one can reach over 20 words per minute solid copy in a matter of months, with only, say, an hour of regular training every day. 20 wpm isn't considered particularly fast amongst morse code operator: the EHSC for example requires its members to copy 60 wpm for 30 minutes. While this is at the extreme end of the spectrum, 20 wpm is attainable by anybody with a little patience and time.
Go here and try it out yourself, over the internet. You'll see 20 wpm is waaay faster than any SMS messaging.
How is it done in Europe, Africa, Asia, S. America, and in Austrailia? How is it working out for them? I hate to jump to privatization without a prescident.
The US tend to set precedents in almost everything, and the rest of the (first) world tries to follow on the principle that "if the US do it, we should too".
So you won't find precedents in most other countries. What you can analyze however the effects of the US' current experiments in extreme capitalism, which are basically leading to the privatization of commons.
So, the radio spectrum is a common, Michael Powell is a crazy right-wing SOB, so the radio spectrum is bound to be privatized some day. Who will benefit? corporations and the government. Who will lose? everybody else, the little guys. That's you and me.
Welcome to a world where corporations can own public commons. I'm not looking forward to having my already-sorry-looking slices of the spectrum be reduced to nothing at all, and the users of the neighbouring slices blast full power and ruin mine. Do your DX now, you may not be able to for very much longer...
73 de F8EJF.
Since bluetooth is in the 2.4GHz band, hams can probably use boosters of up to 200W legally, just like with WiFi.
:-)
We here at the radioclub were able to cover considerable distances with decent directional WiFi waveguides and 10W amplifiers. I wonder if bluetooth would fare as well... Hmmm, something to play with during the holidays
Laser EME (moonbounce) without using the moon retroreflectors!
73 de F8EJF
I never thought I'd spill coffee through my nose with anything regarding EME. Well done! 73 de F8EJF
One of them, CWirc, has a known target of maybe 15 people, and another 50 occasional users. And everybody who uses the program seems to like it a lot, because:
It caters to their specific, specialized desire
I have time to implement or improve things by request, to fit someone's wish almost to a tee (meaning, I don't have to make compromises)
The project is so low-bandwidth and simple that I can make it evolve exactly like I, and the few users, want, at the pace I want
So, while big projects with wide audiences are good, small (and also very small) ones with a very small audience have their place too. That's what makes open-source / free software work, because Microsoft and the likes don't have time or money for smaller projects, and big generic ones often don't do what people want.
73 de F8EJF
another area's ham radio operators get it up the arse
73 de F8EJF