Steve, you're welcome. By the way, I'm really enjoying reading each new Zero Retries, and have posted a link on a couple of local ham mailing lists here in Oregon.
Hi Steve, I started a thread on QRZ about "efficiency" in amateur radio and asked some simple questions https://is.gd/5d8v0a As per usual it devolved into a mess but the funny thing is I posted early this morning almost verbatim what you had to say about New Packet Radio in post #159.
Also a comment about the Texas submission in the first post might be of interest.
I have a strong suspicion why the ARRL is so narrowly focused on HF, specifically Pactor 4. I would rather not post it publicly , I'm in enough trouble already :) PM me if you're interested.
Glad you started Zero Retries, always something interesting. We may not agree on everything digital but I'll keep reading and learning.
Ron - You started a "lively" debate there. I chimed in just a little with post #171. Feel free to email me directly with your views - just reply to the emailed Zero Retries. Thanks for the kind words about Zero Retries, and glad to hear that my opinions on "everything digital" aren't being universally adopted. 😀
The DLARC is a fantastic project, apparently a great synergy of need, funding and follow-through. Thanks for covering this. The website briefly describes the scanning and archiving process. I'm curious about the details of the entire workflow. Has someone documented this anywhere? I'd love to read or watch more details.
BTW, keep up the great work, I enjoy your newsletter- it fills a void of info not available anywhere else.
John - DLARC is just one project of the Internet Archive. It was created with a successful grant application to ARDC which paid for the hiring of an archivist (Kay Savetz K6KJN), the cost of the shipping, scanning, etc. Check out this YouTube video - https://youtu.be/QThaHpkFVzw (and there are others). What that video doesn't show is the dual multi-megapixel cameras that "snapshot" the pages. Then, behind the scenes, the images go to a server farm that renders the images with IA's own optical character recognition, indexed, output to multiple formats such as ebook and PDF. Then the original (physical) object is placed into long-term archival storage. It's fun to think that my name and (old) addresses will live on well beyond me on the scanned address labels of the magazines I've donated.
Re "Still no Part 2 or Part 3 of Crucible of Communications Series": It looks like no additional parts have been published yet. FYI, here's a good site for searching IEEE publications: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?action=search&newsearch=true&matchBoolean=true&queryText=(%22All%20Metadata%22:%22ham%20radio%22)%20AND%20(%22Publication%20Title%22:ieee%20communications%20magazine)&ranges=2022_2023_Year
Craig - Thanks for that link. That certainly will find it if it's there to be found.
Steve, you're welcome. By the way, I'm really enjoying reading each new Zero Retries, and have posted a link on a couple of local ham mailing lists here in Oregon.
Thanks,
Craig N7RWB
Hi Steve, I started a thread on QRZ about "efficiency" in amateur radio and asked some simple questions https://is.gd/5d8v0a As per usual it devolved into a mess but the funny thing is I posted early this morning almost verbatim what you had to say about New Packet Radio in post #159.
Also a comment about the Texas submission in the first post might be of interest.
I have a strong suspicion why the ARRL is so narrowly focused on HF, specifically Pactor 4. I would rather not post it publicly , I'm in enough trouble already :) PM me if you're interested.
Glad you started Zero Retries, always something interesting. We may not agree on everything digital but I'll keep reading and learning.
Thank you
Ron K0IDT
Ron - You started a "lively" debate there. I chimed in just a little with post #171. Feel free to email me directly with your views - just reply to the emailed Zero Retries. Thanks for the kind words about Zero Retries, and glad to hear that my opinions on "everything digital" aren't being universally adopted. 😀
The DLARC is a fantastic project, apparently a great synergy of need, funding and follow-through. Thanks for covering this. The website briefly describes the scanning and archiving process. I'm curious about the details of the entire workflow. Has someone documented this anywhere? I'd love to read or watch more details.
BTW, keep up the great work, I enjoy your newsletter- it fills a void of info not available anywhere else.
John - DLARC is just one project of the Internet Archive. It was created with a successful grant application to ARDC which paid for the hiring of an archivist (Kay Savetz K6KJN), the cost of the shipping, scanning, etc. Check out this YouTube video - https://youtu.be/QThaHpkFVzw (and there are others). What that video doesn't show is the dual multi-megapixel cameras that "snapshot" the pages. Then, behind the scenes, the images go to a server farm that renders the images with IA's own optical character recognition, indexed, output to multiple formats such as ebook and PDF. Then the original (physical) object is placed into long-term archival storage. It's fun to think that my name and (old) addresses will live on well beyond me on the scanned address labels of the magazines I've donated.