Michel
Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 966
Location: Norway
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 Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:44 pm Post subject: [O.T.]Hams are also model builders. WAS: radio problem |
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On Nov 5, 2006, at 6:41 AM, kurt schrader wrote:
| Quote: | If I remember correctly, NASA borrowed slow scan from
the Ham guys, who invented it. NASA stayed with it
until the digital age for all their space pics. But
slow scan, like KitFox's and our "improvements", are
home brew. Many new ideas also come from model
builders.
We are the leaders, not the followers. 
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Your comments illustrate very well what I said a while ago, Kurt: the
experimental aviation business is pretty much like the radio amateur
business. They are both "amateurs," from the latin: Amare, which means,
to love. While we are not professionals, we do it with great love and
passion.
A ham is constantly experimenting and the reason I have slowed down
that activity is that, after contacting a ham from New Zealand ...
there wasn't anything any more remote on this planet to test, the
"Kiwiland" being at my antipode.
Did you know that, at the beginning of the last century, only low and
medium frequencies were used by broadcasters? The high frequency range
was left for the hams to play with. Until, one day, hams managed to
make intercontinental contacts on this "left over" frequency. It was
then very quickly taken back by professional broadcasters, the military
.. well, everyone.
Cheers,
Michel
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