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.