"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:17:22 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:


It would seem that the next logical evolution for VHF communications is
for
it to go to a totally digital format, rather than the analog system it
remains. Digital will allow more available bandwidth for each frequency,
would open up the possibility of full duplex communications and would
provide clearer communications.

NNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

God save us from digital everything.

Give me good old analog communications any day.

With tubes. :)

~~ mutter - digital - phooey ~~


I agree that some things work or sound better using old vacuum tubes and
analog amps. I have a Mesa Boogie guitar amp that has a sound that no solid
state amp can reproduce. However ....

I was just thinking the other day about how quickly technology(particularly
in the various communication areas) has evolved over the past 50, 20 and
even 10 years, primarily due to the conversion to digital systems ... and I
am not referring simply to computers. HD TV, HD radio (even AM), DVD, CD,
cell phones, GPS, .... the list goes on and on.

And, as fiberoptic lines expand and replace cable lines, the digital age
will grow even more.

We've come a long way since I worked on a basic digital communications
system .... FSK with 8 bit teletype machines, clacking away, mechanically
generating a digital code.

Eisboch