![]() ![]() There are two of them, and most of the time they both reside in my shack. Right?īefore I proceed with the rest of my tale let me briefly describe my stations. Hey, my packet application worked, so I must know what I’m doing. But over time, complacency crept in and I eventually did start thinking that way. I understood well enough that I had not conquered the field of packet radio, at least initially. And what I bought was for a very specific application. I also followed the path of least resistance, in that I bought, rather than built. But, other smarter souls had gone before me and had at least left some well-marked trails. My first efforts did involve a fair amount of puzzled frowns and head scratching. I didn’t think that packet radio was plug-and-play, mind you. Recently, however, I learned that, oh no, I didn’t. Having connected a transceiver to a computer, and having sent and received packets, I blithely believed that, oh yes, I understood packet radio. ![]() ![]() Not with computers, of course, but with packet radio. As a software professional, I do not consider that sort of ability to be anything remotely like actually programming a computer.īut I have to admit that I lapsed into the same erroneous mindset. I often hear people say, “Oh yes, I know how to program a computer”, when what they really mean is that they know how to invoke some esoteric feature of Excel or Word. ![]()
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