Mike:

Building antennas of their own will attract people. Building linears of their
own will attract people. Fiddling with feedlines, etc...

Building radios is going bye, bye... the new ones will be PCI cards, USB
external devices, etc... your new rig will be a computer with external
components...

Human hands, in most cases, are just not designed to create computer cards...

John

"Mike Coslo" wrote in message
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John Smith wrote:
Mike:

At this point, amateur is just NOT that technical...

However, it still can fill one of its' directives it was given, and the hams
be ambassadors of goodwill...

Hey, it is a hobby, perfect for the CB'ers. It can be technical--and
perfect for the computer communications people. It can go anywhere from
here, and probably be multiuse without a problem...

My whole beef is not exactly how technical the hobby is or isn't. I have
problems with the idea that is trotted out from time to time, about how
relaxation or elimination, or whatever, of some technical aspect of licensing
is going to attract technical people.

I'd give them a lot more credibility if they said:
We're tired of all the whining about the Morse code test. So Element one goes
away. Now would you people get on with your life?"

That would be intellectually honest.

- Mike KB3EIA -