On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:34:13 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Give me good old analog communications any day.

With tubes. :)

Toooobs?

Good grief. They *were* good on a cold winter night I guess if you
didn't have a fireplace, and the bluish flickering of a slightly gassy
high powered triode could be interesting.

Toooobs and boats never got along very well though.