total.pardo

FTA @

http://ke9v.net/2008/09/wspr-in-the-wind/

thanks for KE9V for making me aware of WSPR - it seems like an interesting marriage of the computer and AR. looking forward to experimenting with it more.

which leads me to express my ideas about his quote from the title of this post.

“I’m no longer certain that’s a bad thing — it’s simply a different thing.”

how often has it been that the old guard has regarded the latest “thing” as a bad or threatening to the hobby? is it the old codger syndrome or is it fear of change?

the only constant in the world is change. embracing and managing the change is the only way one moves forward - its the only way we move forward as a species.

losing the code requirement - the majority of you will still complain - was a bad thing. i submit its just different. don’t like the “newer” people being brought into the hobby by this change? is it your disdain for the oft-chided “no-code” extra - your opinion that he is automatically a “lid”? or is it your deep seated fear of change which causes you to grumble on air about those of us who don’t know code at the speed you do?

is the internet a “bad” thing? is integrating a radio as a software-defined radio a bad thing? if you believe it to be so, i feel you are missing out on an integral aspect of this hobby as well as technology and connectivity in general. how did the pioneering spirit of the hobby get lost? what does it say about society in general that we would fear/complain so much about those things which are different?

i hate to think when i reach the ripe advanced age of those who complain today that i will become that close-minded. i wish to view things as “different” as opposed to “bad.” i am not sure it can be considered “enlightened,” but i am sure it is what is fair.

don’t agree? prefer to complain? please comment below.