Reminds me of the early days of cellular telephone and hand held GPS
devices. Remember, Chuck, how we put a bunch of long grounds in the sand
dunes at the Grayland Motel....never to be found again, despite carefully
recording the GPS coordinates! 73, Walt

On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 6:56 AM Chuck Hutton <charlesh3@msn.com> wrote:

> Mark -
>
> I presume you want GPS to allow calculation of distances since bearing is
> easily done with compass apps.
> You didn't mention exactly what you are trying to do but I thought I would
> mention that GPS accuracy at its best is not good enough for antenna
> construction and installation.
> And on -not-the-best days, you can't expect an absolute accuracy of
> anything better than maybe 20 feet. Half that on good days.
> If you're trying to measure wire length, I'm afraid a Harbor Freight 100
> or 300 foot tape measure is still the way to go.
>
> Chuck
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A while ago, a group of us made the same observation about 2 meter
repeaters. The gee whiz technology of the 1960's and those who know how to
service these machines are now in their 80's and unable to climb towers any
more. Shortwave radio is practically dead, NDBs are dying.

I hope I am wrong but I don't like what I am seeing either. Thanks for
sharing.

On Sun, Jan 6, 2019, 8:00 PM Rick Dau <drummer1965us@hotmail.com wrote:

> Nick, a fascinating read, and Chris goes into further detail to answer the
> questions that I had asked of him when a group of about a dozen of us DXers
> toured Entercomm Milwaukee (WSSP-1250, and others) in August 2017. I had
> asked him if universities and broadcasting schools (Brown, and others) were
> doing anything to educate young people about the technical side of radio
> and about the duties of maintaining multi-tower sites. "Virtually
> nothing", he replied. "I'm 48, and I'm one of the youngest people I know
> of still doing this. There's nobody coming up behind us to take over."
>
> That portends an eerie future for radio, and for those of us who are
> hobbyists in it. Before that visit, I had been a stauch defender of AM's
> future, but now, I'm more like, "Well, I'm just going to milk this cow for
> however long there's milk left in her."
>
> 73,
> Rick Dau
> South Omaha, Nebraska
>
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> This link was posted on the ultralight group, and may be of interest:
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> https://radioinsight.com/blogs/107223/the-looming-engineering-age-crisis/
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> best wishes,
>
> Nick
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> Nick Hall-Patch
> Victoria, BC
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Actually, this is something Brett Saylor and I have been working on as we've gone through our files from the October LBI DXpedition. We have a partial listing put together but there are so many reports made to IDXD and DXWW where there's no details as to the number, duration or pitch of the pips shown in the reports.

I suppose we could compile the easy/certain ones into a preliminary list for sooner release and work through the rest.

In the meantime though I would like to ask that reporters start including that greater level of detail in their reports going forward.

Russ Edmunds

WB2BJH

Blue Bell, PA

Grid FN20id

Nick, a fascinating read, and Chris goes into further detail to answer the questions that I had asked of him when a group of about a dozen of us DXers toured Entercomm Milwaukee (WSSP-1250, and others) in August 2017. I had asked him if universities and broadcasting schools (Brown, and others) were doing anything to educate young people about the technical side of radio and about the duties of maintaining multi-tower sites. "Virtually nothing", he replied. "I'm 48, and I'm one of the youngest people I know of still doing this. There's nobody coming up behind us to take over."

That portends an eerie future for radio, and for those of us who are hobbyists in it. Before that visit, I had been a stauch defender of AM's future, but now, I'm more like, "Well, I'm just going to milk this cow for however long there's milk left in her."

73,
Rick Dau
South Omaha, Nebraska

Yesterday may have been dead; today was pretty much decomposed. The
only audio was a man mumbling on 1566 at 1655UT, that's right, long
after local sunrise.

best wishes,
Nick

Nick Hall-Patch
Victoria, BC
Canada