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#1 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2008 6:48:44 AM(UTC)
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Sent David J. Hayden NMEA Director

Manufacturers and organizations in the electronics business often miss the positive impact of the amateur and hobby community. ARRL saves thousands of lives through Ham radio and were important in the Katrina disaster.

Hobbyists in the marine industry account for "Stitch and Glue" boat building, and the non-cottage industry of marine design. Marconi started wireless radio as a hobby. Some "super performance" aftermarket marine engine guys were or are hobbyists. Personal Computer development was advanced by hobbyists. The 8 bit microcontrollers in much of the market is

Hobbyists provide alternatives. Many of us are very skilled, systems engineers, professors, students and boaters who seek control over their systems and technologies.


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Often, we do it because we can. Why take the fun out of part of my boat? Some soup up marine engines and some fix electronics.
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#2 Posted : Friday, February 01, 2008 6:53:24 AM(UTC)
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From: "info@marinetteboat.com" <info@marinetteboat.com>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 2:51 PM
To: dhayden@nmea.org
Subject: My position


David J. Hayden

Manufacturers and organizations in the electronics business often miss the positive impact of the amateur and hobby community. ARRL saves thousands of lives through Ham radio and were important in the Katrina disaster.

Hobbyists in the marine industry account for "Stitch and Glue" boat building, and the non-cottage industry of marine design. Marconi started wireless radio as a hobby. Some "super performance" aftermarket marine engine guys were or are hobbyists. Personal Computer development was advanced by hobbyists. The PIC hobbyist group is huge.

Hobbyists provide alternatives. Many of us are very skilled, systems engineers, professors, students and boaters who seek control over their systems and technologies. From Matlab, to ARM and PIC, to composable CAN, to real time ethernet, to RTSJ, to verilog and DSP and everything else we can bring a lot.

Often, we do it because we can. Why take the fun out of part of my boat? Some soup up marine engines and some fix electronics.

Respectfully Joseph Howard

I am still awaiting a response from Mr Spitzer.
I am a new NMEA member.
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#3 Posted : Saturday, February 02, 2008 6:50:04 AM(UTC)
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A better person to contact would be NMEA Director Jules Rutstein of Bethel Marine Electronics, FL (jrinc@digital.net)
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