{"id":1351,"date":"2019-04-18T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/04\/18\/our-dismal-digital-future\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:18:08","slug":"our-dismal-digital-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/04\/18\/our-dismal-digital-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Dismal Digital Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/SDR_05.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"237\" data-original-width=\"500\" height=\"188\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/SDR_05.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>I&#8217;m sure some would find this device appealing &#8212; to each his own. But I don&#8217;t like it. It seems to mark another step down the path toward the complete appliance-ization of ham radio. Note how the control head is looking more an more like something for your car audio system, or your cell phone. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>YUCK. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Count me out. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Just say NO! <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>Menus are for RESTAURANTS! <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>RIGS NOT RADIOS! <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b>HDR FOREVER! <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/qrznow.com\/barrett-4050-hf-sdr-transceiver\/?fbclid=IwAR1LEoJ-nyeRKuzEu9tNdHcb1rRlTaD3zWnFDuIPrEdQ3cgytMU0hbQxOoc\">https:\/\/qrznow.com\/barrett-4050-hf-sdr-transceiver\/?fbclid=IwAR1LEoJ-nyeRKuzEu9tNdHcb1rRlTaD3zWnFDuIPrEdQ3cgytMU0hbQxOoc<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure some would find this device appealing &#8212; to each his own. But I don&#8217;t like it. It seems to mark another step down the path toward the complete appliance-ization of ham radio. Note how the control head is looking more an more like something for your car audio system, or your cell phone. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/04\/18\/our-dismal-digital-future\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Dismal Digital Future?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sdr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}