A couple of short video panoramas from the Dayton Hamvention!
In the Hara Arena -- a small part of the exhibit space.
The fleamarket scene.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Seen at Dayton Hamvention, 2007
Photos without comment from the Dayton, Ohio Hamvention, 2007. (Click for high-resolution versions.)
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Is Ham Radio like a Telco?
Thanks to Slashdot for the following provocative video link. Van Johnson talks to Google about what comes after the TCP/IP Internet. In a nutshell, we have seen telco-style circuit switching morph into the current TCP/IP packet switched network, and the goal has always been to support end-to-end conversations. But the current Internet is dominated by fetching data (e.g. web pages), and TCP/IP is poorly suited for it. What will come next?
This talk leads me to ask what is "amateur radio" all about? Is it a way of supporting conversations? Of course, but is it more than that? Are we stuck in the telco model, a 100 year old paradigm? It is a problem if we are a hobby that only cares about "the wires" - or the airwaves -- and not about any higher level functionality. Food for thought.
This talk leads me to ask what is "amateur radio" all about? Is it a way of supporting conversations? Of course, but is it more than that? Are we stuck in the telco model, a 100 year old paradigm? It is a problem if we are a hobby that only cares about "the wires" - or the airwaves -- and not about any higher level functionality. Food for thought.