I made some updates to my pips document, but we're back to the same old problems.

I cant send it as an attachment, and there's no place to store it.

Perhaps in 10 or 20 years we can put the 90's style email reflector in the trash can and move to groups.io like everyone else.

Chuck

Explains why my many QSL letters to "chief engineer" have gone unanswered
in the last several decades! Jim Renfrew

On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 10:39 PM Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@ieee.org> wrote:

> This link was posted on the ultralight group, and may be of interest:
>
> https://radioinsight.com/blogs/107223/the-looming-engineering-age-crisis/
>
> best wishes,
>
> Nick
>
>
> Nick Hall-Patch
> Victoria, BC
> Canada
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As countries in Africa are being inundated with the latest Chinese made cell and internet technology and people are moving away from the freedom of radio, despots everywhere are realizing the wonders of one mouse click filtration and censorship.

Radio is hard to jam and filter.

Internet radio censorship is crazy easy - even a dictator can do it.

Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -

> On Jan 7, 2019, at 6:04 AM, Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@bcdx.us> wrote:
>
> This situation exists everywhere within terrestrial broadcast radio, hobby and commercial alike. Radio is old technology and the younger generation has largely passed it by in favor of more modern and I daresay efficient technologies. Radio will continue to exist for a time but some of the younger folks among us may see a day when radio is history.
>
>

In British Columbia, there is (based on my intel) virtually no techs or engineers to look after the aging CBC AM-FM infrastructure.

If it breaks, someone from commercial radio is paged or emailed - fingers crossed.

A family member is an on-air personality and content creator and he has actually climbed a tower to check connections on an antenna array with no technical training - yes, heâs an idiot (and an in-law...)

In our dumb-down race for the bottom Donald Trump world, we forget that we actually need intelligent and educated folks occasionally.

Colin Newell - Victoria - B.C. CANADA -

>

This situation exists everywhere within terrestrial broadcast radio, hobby and commercial alike. Radio is old technology and the younger generation has largely passed it by in favor of more modern and I daresay efficient technologies. Radio will continue to exist for a time but some of the younger folks among us may see a day when radio is history.

Russ Edmunds

WB2BJH

Blue Bell, PA

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