Zero Retries 0051
2022-06-17 - Zero Retries Interesting Projects, Products, etc. - Part 2
Technological innovation in Amateur Radio - Data Communications; Space; Microwave… the fun stuff! The Universal Purpose of Ham Radio is to have fun messing around with radios - Bob Witte K0NR. Ultimately, amateur radio must prove that it is useful for society - Dr. Karl Meinzer DJ4ZC. We are confronted by insurmountable opportunities! - Pogo. Nothing great has ever been accomplished without irrational exuberance - Tom Evslin. Irrational exuberance is pretty much the business model of Zero Retries Newsletter - Steve Stroh N8GNJ. What’s life without whimsy? - Dr. Sheldon Cooper.
Zero Retries is a unique, quirky little highly independent, opinionated, self-published email newsletter about technological innovation in Amateur Radio, for a self-selecting niche audience, that’s free (as in beer) to subscribe.
Steve Stroh N8GNJ, Editor
Jack Stroh, Late Night Assistant Editor Emeritus
In this issue:
- Request To Send
- A few updates to Zero Retries 0050 - Zero Retries Interesting Projects, Products, etc. - Part 1:
- Conferences
- Cost Is No Object
- HF Data Communications
- Interesting Projects In Development
- Join the Fun on Amateur Radio
- Closing The Channel
Request To Send
Given that this is Part 2 of the second decadal update on Zero Retries Interesting Projects, Products, etc. that I’ve tried, and failed, to condense to a single issue, I’ve concluded it’s foolish to try hope to cram all of that info into a single issue of Zero Retries, given the real world constraints of a newsletter intended to fit within an email. Doubly so, because while my previous attempt consumed two issues of Zero Retries, this attempt has now consumed three issues - Zero Retries 0050, 0051, and next week 0052 (at least in part).
Thus, for the next installment (Zero Retries 0060) of this ongoing project, I will make that issue a “highlights” reference to a blog post or web page that doesn’t have length constraints. I did so for Zero Retries 0039 and Zero Retries 0040 - see Zero Retries Projects Etc. from ZR 0039 and 0040. That turned out reasonably well, and thus after Zero Retries 0052 publishes next week, I’ll do the same for Zero Retries 0050, 0051, and 0052.
And, of course, all of this info is fodder for the Zero Retries book in progress.
Doing so also ties SuperPacket a bit tighter with Zero Retries. To us writers, there’s a different “feel” in writing a blog post versus a web page versus a weekly newsletter - it’s good to stretch the lesser-used writing muscles once in a while and I will be blogging more regularly on both SuperPacket and N8GNJ.org.
Finally, if you want to understand what drove me to create Zero Retries, check out this episode of HamRadioNow on YouTube.
