John,

Nobody is holding a gun to your head to make you join if you don't want to. 
That said, we'll miss you.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 10:25
Subject: Re: schedule


> I'll put it another way, you take it to echolink, you'll never get me in
> that peace of junk, and you'll never see me in another blind hams net as
> long as there is a ham radio which with echolink and what it promotes, 
> won't
> be another 10 years.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 9:57 AM
> Subject: Re: schedule
>
>
>> ASo connect to the conferrence with your HT, and bingo it's radio.  Radio
>> isn't about carriers, it's about sparks.  Radio isn't about phone, it's 
>> cw
>> only.  Radio isn't about sideband, it's A.M. phone only.  Radio isn't
>> about
>> commercially purchassed applience rigs, it's home brew or at least radios
>> you can fix yourself.  Radio isn't about repeaters, it's simplex only.
>> Radio is about earth, it's not about sattellites.  If this is just about
>> radio, let's just get on the air and call cq.  Let's distroy this list,
>> because it's not radio.  Since traditional radio can't allow us to talk
>> together, let's talk as and how we can.  If we want radio, we don't need 
>> a
>> blind ham net.  If we want to have a big round table of blind hams; let's
>> make it work.  Echo link demands you are a real licensed ham, and you
>> certainly can log in with your HT.  By the way to add to my above list,
>> VHF
>> isn't real radio, only HF is radio.  I think this discussion has been
>> going
>> on ever since the first oscellator was invented a hundred years ago.
>