16 Feb
2010
16 Feb
'10
3:36 a.m.
On Feb 15, 2010, at 9:36 PM, keith wrote:
Absolutely! And I think introducing more people and
expanding the
community is a great thing for everyone. Make this stuff more
accessible is a great goal. Makes things cheaper, more available,
better supported. More documentation, more web sites, more blogs.
It's all good.
I think there is also a certain group of people (present company
excluded, of course) that don't want to allow the "newbies" in
their precious "club." They feel that by removing the barriers to
entry (maybe learning to solder, learning assembly language,
learning basic electronics) that their self-worth is somehow
diluted because the end goal is more easily attainable now w/o
requiring these skills.
Well, the skills are still necessary to do anything serious, so
there's no *real* dilution involved. Lower barriers to entry is a
good thing here.
Talk to the old grouchy hams about adding no-code tech
ham radio
licenses on your local repeater, if you want your ear beat for 1/2
hour.
...but not here. No-code Tech licenses have made 2m sound like
the CB of the 1970s.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL