Dear Time Magazine:

Page 109 of the December 27th issue of "TIME" made the statement that
"blogs" "...were a faintly embarrassing hobby on the order of Ham Radio
and stamp collecting."

The shallow person who wrote that should learn something about the subjects
they are writing about. I would suggest that whoever was responsible for
that statement should be given a research-surfing assignment to find out
what "Ham Radio" is all about before they spout off.

ak

Suggested reading for the ignorant:


http://www.indiana.edu/~k9iu/intro_info.html

http://www.rac.ca/regulatory/faqham.htm

http://www.seits.org/business/whatis1.htm

http://www.columbia.edu/~fuat/cuarc/arrl-hampromo.html

http://www.sbcecs.org/ares.htm

http://www.gars.net/ares.htm

http://www.rac.ca/regulatory/faqham.htm

http://www.emcomm.org/siskiyou/

http://www.w5yi.org/page.php?id=64

http://www.qsl.net/dx1cw/whatis.html

http://www.fema.gov/library/civilpg.shtm#2

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/wsom/manual/...%20%20%20%20Am
ateur

http://www.scc-ares-races.org/member...dout_short.pdf

http://www.bloomingtonradio.org/emer/ARNets.pdf

http://www.cot.net/~n6mrx/ares/ham.html

http://www.k4ucf.ucf.edu/WhatisAmateurRadio.html

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c104:H.R.3207.IH:

http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/reg...s/news/part97/

http://www.dalek.org/srg/arsintro.html

http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/statutes/AFuG.htm

http://web.infinito.it/utenti/f/flaviano.moro/ars.htm