http://freeculture.org/blog/2005/01/06/free-culture-under-our-noses/ Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:01:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://freeculture.org/blog/2005/01/06/free-culture-under-our-noses/comment-page-1/#comment-231 David Tarsi Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:53:23 +0000 /?p=97#comment-231 Thank you for recognizing the contribution of amateur radio operators. Amateurs had cell phones in the 60's. Sure, they were analog, but there were repeaters all over the place and we didn't call them cell phones. On uhf you could use duplex ( send and recieve at the same time ). By allowing people to be free to experiment and collaborate; and recieve recognition for what they do, almost anything is possible. It seems like the spirit of the amateur radio operator is alive and well in cyberspace. Designing and building your own 20 meter yagi and hooking up the homebrew linear, transverter, and ssb transciever to the whole system the way you want to is kinda like setting up and programming your own web server using Apache and GNU/Linux on the machine you put together your way. 73's WA7AXT Thank you for recognizing the contribution of amateur radio operators. Amateurs had cell phones in the 60′s. Sure, they were analog, but there were repeaters all over the place and we didn’t call them cell phones. On uhf you could use duplex ( send and recieve at the same time ).
By allowing people to be free to experiment and collaborate; and recieve recognition for what they do, almost anything is possible. It seems like the spirit of the amateur radio operator is alive and well in cyberspace. Designing and building your own 20 meter yagi and hooking up the homebrew linear, transverter, and ssb transciever to the whole system the way you want to is kinda like setting up and programming your own web server using Apache and GNU/Linux on the machine you put together your way. 73′s WA7AXT

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