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Re: Analog or Digital Radio Transmission by the Railroads???
Author: OldPoleBurner
Date: 04-07-2011 - 14:40
> Then, who should I trust? Rush? Glen? Alex Jones? Posters here? Yeah, that's it
> Alex Jones, he's honest.
Hey Trucker,
What makes you think you should "trust" anybody on the internet - or any media source for that matter? They all have their own ax to grind; besides, they just love to embellish and sensationalize stories just to make them more impressive. They think it sells more newspapers!
In the forty years I have been involved in railroading, I have personally eyewitnessed, or was an investigator on, countless events and circumstances where the media reported on it. In not one of those several hundreds of reports, did the reporter actually get it right - Not once in 40 years.
So I think I come by my media skepticism honestly - and for good reason. If they got ALL of what I do know about (because I was there) wrong; how can I possibly, not wonder what else they are getting wrong - besides all of that too? Politics has absolutely nothing to do with it; as opposed to guys like you that keep bringing up what some political pundit thinks - Who the hell cares!
What baffles me most about your question is: Why would you need to "trust" any source anyway? When you can instead use your own god-given intellect to think critically; verify with multiple sources; or even just accept the reality, that you can't always (or even very often) find the whole truth about much of anything; and just do the best you can keeping an open mind about the rest?
So: Can we return to the original topic of this thread - My question was, will the conversion to digital put an end to railroad radio scanning as we know it, or will digital capable scanners become available at some point? If so - when?
OPB
> Alex Jones, he's honest.
Hey Trucker,
What makes you think you should "trust" anybody on the internet - or any media source for that matter? They all have their own ax to grind; besides, they just love to embellish and sensationalize stories just to make them more impressive. They think it sells more newspapers!
In the forty years I have been involved in railroading, I have personally eyewitnessed, or was an investigator on, countless events and circumstances where the media reported on it. In not one of those several hundreds of reports, did the reporter actually get it right - Not once in 40 years.
So I think I come by my media skepticism honestly - and for good reason. If they got ALL of what I do know about (because I was there) wrong; how can I possibly, not wonder what else they are getting wrong - besides all of that too? Politics has absolutely nothing to do with it; as opposed to guys like you that keep bringing up what some political pundit thinks - Who the hell cares!
What baffles me most about your question is: Why would you need to "trust" any source anyway? When you can instead use your own god-given intellect to think critically; verify with multiple sources; or even just accept the reality, that you can't always (or even very often) find the whole truth about much of anything; and just do the best you can keeping an open mind about the rest?
So: Can we return to the original topic of this thread - My question was, will the conversion to digital put an end to railroad radio scanning as we know it, or will digital capable scanners become available at some point? If so - when?
OPB
