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March 3rd 05, 06:02 PM

wrote:

The issue isn't whether I'm trying to enter the hobby or not or whether
I like taking meaningless tests. The issue is whether or not the hobby
is interesting enough to attract new blood. From what I have seen at
hamventions and heard on the bands there are few if any young people
attracted to the hobby. It is certainly easier to ignore an obvious
shift in ham radio demographics than to do something about it. But the
decision to do nothing will mean the hobby will continue to grey and
lose active members.

I'm not surprised to hear the FCC talk about taking spectrum dedicated
to amateur radio or that they are approving schemes that will surely
cause interference on the ham bands...are you? Maybe the FCC
recognizes that the ham community is not the force it once was.

Last time I looked the numbers were actually up.

This is the same refrain I've heard for the past 35+ years. (I was licensed in
1970).

Same as shortwave radio dying, which I've heard for almost 40 years.

Same old story. Heard it before.

dxAce
Michigan
USA