Ham Radio All Portable Discussion Zone
Jun 7, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 13 segments
Barb WB2CBA is a civil engineer by trade and an open source QRP designer by passion. Every circuit he's created has gone straight to GitHub with no paywalls and no kits he controls exclusively, and…
I'll continue as a technician.
You know, that's many people's story, I'm sure.
I know.
And voice, I did voice.
one, one recorded logged voice call with micro SDX in, I think it was 2019 or 2020.
That's it.
For some reason, I don't know, you know, it just doesn't attract me with voice.
Digital modes attracts more.
Actually, people are arguing that that's not real ham radio and et cetera, et cetera.
I get that a lot.
You know, actually I, I'm jumping now to the different subject.
They don't do it anymore I guess there was a ham radio gathering.
It's called ham radio University so I went to one of them and I showed my whisper Transmitter and they said oh, this is interesting.
Can you give us a talk about that? I said sure so They invited me to a hall.
Everyone is sitting.
And I started, hey, this is digital modes.
They started to boo me.
They booed.
I said, you guys called me to come here.
Why are you booing me? Well, this is not real ham radio.
Wow.
Tough crowd.
Yeah, tough crowd.
This kind of reactions I got, but I don't know.
I'll continue as a technician.
You know, that's many people's story, I'm sure.
I know.
And voice, I did voice.
one, one recorded logged voice call with micro SDX in, I think it was 2019 or 2020.
That's it.
For some reason, I don't know, you know, it just doesn't attract me with voice.
Digital modes attracts more.
Actually, people are arguing that that's not real ham radio and et cetera, et cetera.
I get that a lot.
You know, actually I, I'm jumping now to the different subject.
They don't do it anymore I guess there was a ham radio gathering.
It's called ham radio University so I went to one of them and I showed my whisper Transmitter and they said oh, this is interesting.
Can you give us a talk about that? I said sure so They invited me to a hall.
Everyone is sitting.
And I started, hey, this is digital modes.
They started to boo me.
They booed.
I said, you guys called me to come here.
Why are you booing me? Well, this is not real ham radio.
Wow.
Tough crowd.
Yeah, tough crowd.
This kind of reactions I got, but I don't know.
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