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Posted by Otto Vrijhof on January 31, 2007, 5:34 am
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> You might ask why the worlds aircraft still use am vhf radios everywhere.
The aircraft industry for better or worse is (has become over time) very
conservative.
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> think its also if it works and is reliable, why bother?
Horses worked and were reliable at one time too
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>I mean, so many of the emergency services have jumped into new age telecoms
>and been forced to use the old as a back up when it falls over!
Indeed, they 'jumped'; after analysis it invariably turns out these projects
were very badly managed
Otto
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> channels should be kept about as bad as in the Sixties? When I listen to
> talk from the Shuttle on NASA-tv it sounds like I'm in a time warp. WHY
> don't they have Skype type quality?