K1JT: Amateur Radio Will Thrive in Future
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| Joe Taylor, K1JT (Internet screen grab, <http://www.ARRL.org>) |
Nobel Laureate and ham radio software pioneer Joe Taylor, K1JT, told a attendees at the ARRL Centennial Convention in July that ham radio will continue to thrive in the future, even as radio technology becomes more digital. According to the ARRL Letter, Taylor also told a forum on weak-signal DXing that amateur radio "will continue to benefit from a healthy cross-fertilization between amateurs and professionals." He pointed out that it was hams 100 years ago who proved that the shortwave bands could support long-distance communications when scientists of the time were certain they could not, and encouraged hams to continue to make whatever contributions they can to the art and science of radio and to the public good. Taylor is a retired professor at Princeton University and the author of the WSJT suite of ham radio software that has revolutionized weak-signal communication both on VHF and HF.
