In article , "Dan Mattingly N0FQN"
writes:

The issue is it was not invented today. So, what's your point??? You could
say this statement about any subject. It's too, broad in texture. Narrow
your point or I won't give you a grade.

Oh, wow, another LITERALIST joins the group grope!

You really don't understand the context of the original subject
question or that alternate realities are INFINITE and that any and
all such alternatives are as valid, true, etc., as any other?

To sum it up, Mistah Supreme Grade Literalist, it can be said that,
in an ALTERNATE REALITY, the rest of the radio world would have
gone on, advanced, improved, innovated, invented, grown by leaps
and bounds WITHOUT amateur radio...just as it did in this present
reality when amateur radio does exist.

You want to "give me a grade" that is an "F" because you don't
like to hear about the Rest Of The Radio World?

Go ahead. The rest of the radio world doesn't really care because
it long ago TOOK OVER all of the innovation, invention, development,
pioneering, etc., etc., etc. You don't want to believe that? Look
around you past the League propaganda with its history of sinning by
omission in the "history of (amateur) radio," implying that amateurs
"pioneered" everything (they didn't).

ARRL wasn't even the first national radio club in the USA. That
"distinction" belongs to the Radio Club of America...still in existance
(as it was five years before the League was formed) but no longer
favoring amateur activities over other things in all of radio.

Back in the beginning of "radio," generally accredited by historians
to be 1896 (108 years ago), there were neither amateurs OR
professionals. Hardly anyone knew anything and it couldn't have
been a big business. Heck and darn (expletives are not allowed
in here lest the Puritans become offended and outraged), early
radio was hardly advanced in "radio" technology by 1920, two years
after WW1 ended...and Ed Armstrong received his superheterodyne
receiver patent (applied for 2 years earlier)...and ol' Hiram lobbied
for the return of amateur radio activity (thereby achieving immortality
and sainthood via the League).

The original question was conjecture on What Would Happen IFF
(thats "If and only If" in literary conjecture spelling) Amateur Radio
were "invented" TODAY instead of being shut down past 1919.

Try some concentration on CONJECTURE, not some "lecturing"
based on what happened in the present reality...with all the
ass-umptions of your "instructorship" and "ability to give grades."

I say the REST OF THE RADIO WORLD (a heckuva lot bigger
than amateur radio can ever be) would have gone on ANYWAY
because hardly any of that growth, innovation, invention, etc., is
NOT based on amateur activity. I've been IN that rest of the radio
world for half a century and have very little evidence that any of it's
growth was ever due to amateurism.

Prove me "wrong" about an ALTERNATE REALITY with your
"instructorship" and "teaching credentials" and "ability to 'give'
grades."

Pffft. Consider yourself fired from the class, the key to the teacher's
lounge taken away, your parking space eliminated. No pension.
Take it up with the Bored of Education in the Alternate Reality.

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