Hi TOM!   
      
   11 Jan 2016 07:10, from TOM WALKER -> RICHARD MENEDETTER:   
      
    RM>> That is the good thing with HAM radio.   
    RM>> You can have different definitions.   
      
    RM>> Mine looks different to yours ;)   
      
    TW> There is NO different look for Ham Radio.   
      
   But obviously there are.   
   You have one, and I have one, they are not the same, hence they are different.   
   QED.   
      
    TW> IT is, and has been since it's inception, communications over Radio   
    TW> waves for the entire contact.   
    TW> A Microphone connected to a Computer or an Internet Adapter hardly   
    TW> seems to qualify   
      
   I am not talking about a microphone connected to a computer or an Internet   
   Adapter!   
      
   I am for example talking about D-Star/DMR/Fusion.   
      
   There you have 3 possibilitites:   
   1) talk on simplex HT <-> HT over radio waves (talk around on DMR)   
   2) HT <-> repeater <-> HT over radio waves   
   3) HT <-> repeater 1 <-> IP <-> repeater 2 <-> HT all over radio except the IP   
   link between the 2 repeaters. Those two repeaters can be seperated by   
   thousands of kilometers or whatever non-SI units you like.   
      
   From MY point of view having the possibility of using option 3 does NOT   
   disqualify those technologies as being HAM!   
      
   Again feel free to have a different oppinion, but stop telling me that there   
   is no different viewpoint, because there is!!   
      
   CU, Ricsi   
      
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