Re: [IRCA] Wince-worthy IBOC praise article - moving forward

["Saul Chernos" <sauldx@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We can have it both ways.

The hobby will endure in some way, shape or form. There will always be uses 
for spectrum, and there will always be people interested in sniffing out 
what's there.

Broadcasting is undergoing profound change. The internet and wireless and 
satellite technologies WILL change the platforms upon which audio and video 
services are delivered. However, the beauty and magic of radio will survive 
and evolve in new, interesting ways. New technology opens up exciting 
opportunities, and broadcasters who spend more time, energy and resources 
(financial and otherwise) on quackery, chasing what's touted as the latest 
and greatest technology / platform, and thinking the same-old, same-old 
content will do, will find themselves cast to the wayside, roadkill on the 
new (oh, how I hate the term) information highway.

The smart way is to be easily available over the Internet and handheld 
portable devices (which require fairly minimal spending), and pick and 
choose very carefully how to proceed with any digital use of broadcast 
spectrum. Keep a highly critical, eagle eye on things, and wait until 
stuff's been tried and tested. Technology and platform are not the place to 
'be first'. Broadcasters are in the content business, not the platform 
business, and should be wary of hucksters selling viagra. Viagra that's made 
radio limp, at that!


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Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 7:55 PM
Subject: [IRCA] Wince-worthy IBOC praise article - moving forward


> I think if there was one statement in the article (new or old), that got 
> me overheated... it was
>
> "The era of DX'ing has come to an end now that the entire world is wired 
> for the Internet"
>
> Two things:
>
> 1.) The "entire world" may be "wired" for the internet, but the average 
> connectivity in the
> average 3rd World village is probably not much faster than a 56K Modem.
>
> Then again, Ira may have been referring to the "U.S.A." as the "Entire 
> World..."
> which it is for many geographically challenged North Americans.
>
> 2.) The era of DX'ing has NOT come to an end -- and it will not on my 
> shift brother.
>
> I have been promoting the hobby of DX listening since the first few weeks 
> of Spring 1972
> when I had my first radio - preaching the gospel to whomever would listen; 
> young or old.
>
> Ira, whoever he is, should have or could have expected some rebuttal (now 
> or one year ago)
> from an article that is little more than an advertisement for digital 
> radio.
>
> I would urge everyone to consider the following:
> You could, hypothetically, divide society into those who embrace 
> technology,
> regardless of its faults and those who eschew modern techniques and 
> practices
> in favor of the tried and true.
>
> I have recently jumped on Gary De Bocks "Ultralight" revolution which
> is a little of both (the old and the new)- and I would encourage 
> moderation and temperance
> when responding to perceived attacks on the hobby.
>
> I, for one, am not giving up on this hobby...but, I will
> not let it blow out a heart valve. It is all about
> perspective, balance and what is important.

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