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Pensavo che il Premio Nobel della polemica divertente fosse Papa' Silvano (I4ZSQ), che ha avuto la fortuna di non avere un figlio che gli dicesse, tornando da scuola,
Did Joe Taylor K1JT, Nobel Laureate and noted friend of hams everywhere, accidentally destroy amateur radio?
Having just returned from a trip in my time machine, I can unequivocally say that history attributes the death of amateur radio to Joe Taylor in the year 2017. So, yes, he did. In fact, 2018 AD marks the beginning of the "hampocalypse," and becomes known among former ham operators as 1 AT (the first year "After Taylor").
The distinguished scientist had some help, of course, but just like the "flu" epidemic of 2027 (you'll see), in which an attenuated pathogen that was only supposed to be experimental in nature escaped into the population at large and quickly replicated itself, Taylor's FT8 digital mode grew exponentially, suffocating other modes as it mushroomed beyond any practical limits.
By the time FT9 and FT10 were released - modes that allowed a small amount of real-time interaction (formerly known as conversation) - it was too late. Hams, the few who remained, refused to exchange personal pleasantries, focusing instead on machine-verified signal reports and grid square exchanges.
In 2 AT, non-machine QSOs were outlawed and rules prohibiting unattended operations at HF were rescinded worldwide. Amateur allocations were reduced to 5kHz-wide slices every 2 MHz (from dc to daylight) so computerized stations could map optimized frequency-hopping and ALE schemes in real-time. With machine-only modes, additional bandwidth was simply wasted. The CQWW contest (renamed the CQJTWW contest) was the first major outing to offer certificates to operators who didn't even know that their computer-controlled stations had participated in the contest and had turned in noteworthy scores - the ultimate in unattended operation!
By 3 AT, AI-driven networks saw that humans were completely unnecessary for contesting and propagation mapping operations, so amateur services were disbanded worldwide. An AI from Italy, rumored to be running an illegally "high-powered" FT11 beta processor, worked DXCC in 478 milliseconds, the fastest to date. Also of note, once occupying 48 hours, the CQJTWW contest, now worked only by competing AI participants, has been reduced to 8.5 seconds, freeing the contestant AIs to map additional ionospheric sub-modalities.
In an attempt to recreate a "freeband-like" clandestine radio system that allowed human-ham interaction on a personal level, some former amateurs began experimenting with gravity-gradient modulation and quantum entanglement transceivers - technologies that don't require, or even benefit from, FT8, FT9, or FT10 style restrictions (well, maybe FT10).
I'd like to share more, but my time in the future was limited by the power constraints of my device. If you have access to a more powerful time machine, please tell us what happened next.
Papi, sai quando mi parlavi del tuo fare il radioamatore
ed io non ne volevo sapere nulla?
Sii felice, mi sono appena iscritto al Ham Radio FT8 Club
!
Poi mi sono imbattuto in un articolo pubblicato su The Spectrum Monitor che EI5DI ha riprodotto e di cui qui inserisco la parte a mio avviso maggiormente simpatica.ed io non ne volevo sapere nulla?
Sii felice, mi sono appena iscritto al Ham Radio FT8 Club
! Amateur Radio Insights
By Kirk Kleinschmidt NT0Z - nt0z@stealthamateur.com
Did Joe Taylor K1JT Destroy Amateur Radio?
By Kirk Kleinschmidt NT0Z - nt0z@stealthamateur.com
Did Joe Taylor K1JT Destroy Amateur Radio?
Did Joe Taylor K1JT, Nobel Laureate and noted friend of hams everywhere, accidentally destroy amateur radio?
Having just returned from a trip in my time machine, I can unequivocally say that history attributes the death of amateur radio to Joe Taylor in the year 2017. So, yes, he did. In fact, 2018 AD marks the beginning of the "hampocalypse," and becomes known among former ham operators as 1 AT (the first year "After Taylor").
The distinguished scientist had some help, of course, but just like the "flu" epidemic of 2027 (you'll see), in which an attenuated pathogen that was only supposed to be experimental in nature escaped into the population at large and quickly replicated itself, Taylor's FT8 digital mode grew exponentially, suffocating other modes as it mushroomed beyond any practical limits.
By the time FT9 and FT10 were released - modes that allowed a small amount of real-time interaction (formerly known as conversation) - it was too late. Hams, the few who remained, refused to exchange personal pleasantries, focusing instead on machine-verified signal reports and grid square exchanges.
In 2 AT, non-machine QSOs were outlawed and rules prohibiting unattended operations at HF were rescinded worldwide. Amateur allocations were reduced to 5kHz-wide slices every 2 MHz (from dc to daylight) so computerized stations could map optimized frequency-hopping and ALE schemes in real-time. With machine-only modes, additional bandwidth was simply wasted. The CQWW contest (renamed the CQJTWW contest) was the first major outing to offer certificates to operators who didn't even know that their computer-controlled stations had participated in the contest and had turned in noteworthy scores - the ultimate in unattended operation!
By 3 AT, AI-driven networks saw that humans were completely unnecessary for contesting and propagation mapping operations, so amateur services were disbanded worldwide. An AI from Italy, rumored to be running an illegally "high-powered" FT11 beta processor, worked DXCC in 478 milliseconds, the fastest to date. Also of note, once occupying 48 hours, the CQJTWW contest, now worked only by competing AI participants, has been reduced to 8.5 seconds, freeing the contestant AIs to map additional ionospheric sub-modalities.
In an attempt to recreate a "freeband-like" clandestine radio system that allowed human-ham interaction on a personal level, some former amateurs began experimenting with gravity-gradient modulation and quantum entanglement transceivers - technologies that don't require, or even benefit from, FT8, FT9, or FT10 style restrictions (well, maybe FT10).
I'd like to share more, but my time in the future was limited by the power constraints of my device. If you have access to a more powerful time machine, please tell us what happened next.
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