Michael Black wrote:
"Dan Mattingly N0FQN" wrote in message ...

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.


That's what I find amusing about these threads.

People want to play "what if" but they aren't describing the situation
where ham radio would be invented today. The way I see it, the real
reason they can imagine amateur radio is because it's been around
all these years. Form follows function. The proponents of this
thread can't really explain why amateur radio would arise today,
without the bias of the past, so really they can't define what
would arise if it did.

Go back and read the initial message in the thread and the modifications
in the next couple posts.
If you don't want to play along, DON'T! I gave an inital situation, in
which nothing was given back to amateur radio after WW1 and it died out.
I then added some more qualifications after N2EY asked for them.

snip


I also note that the topic wasn't about "what would the world be
like without amateur radio" but "what would amateur radio be like
if started today". So yes, one can look back and imagine a history
of radio without amateurs, but the two are indeed linked. Take out
that history from amateur radio, and I really don't see it starting
up today.

Umm, yeah. Sorry to bother you with the thread. DLTDHYOTAOTWO!

Other good reasons for not participating in the thread:

Well, amateur radio didn't go away after WW1, so why are we talking
about this?

Well, things wouldn't be like they are now, so how do we know how they
would be?

Well, what if there were no hypothetical situations?

Well, this is all well and good, but what does it have to do with Morse
Code or Kim's callsign?

- Mike KB3EIA -