There is no unity, which is good. Its just like the conversion from AM to SSB or incentive licensing or FM repeaters on 2M in the 70s or no-morse-code licensin

There is no unity, which is good. Its just like the conversion from AM to SSB or incentive licensing or FM repeaters on 2M in the 70s or no-morse-code licensing or dstar or thru-hole to SMD or rtty to PSK31 or pretty much everything that's ever happened to ham radio ... Never heard of it. That's crazy. I think its interesting or it'll be the death of the hobby (depending solely on if the participant is personally involved). Its the same stuff looked at differently. We've always all been a fan of that since its start. So obviously I've dropped the docs on me being eligible for QCWA and 3rd gen ham. I will say as having fooled around with it, latency can sometimes be truly awful which has quite an impact on your normal half duplex operation, ops almost willfully don't understand scalability of the software with bandwidth or real time RTOS desires. Nothing funnier than a PC crash in the middle of a QSO. Ability to "do ham radio stuff" does not necessarily come with basic computer competence, although it often does... There's a big impedance jump going from "I downloaded HPSDR and it worked" to "I pkg install'd gnuradio and made my own broadcast FM receiver and it worked". Its like using Scratch to write hello world vs porting Emacs to Haskell. The first time you get gnuradio to work its a rush. I imagine the jump from gnuradio to FPGA based boards is similar rush if you can do it. In my infinite spare time...