Michael Coslo wrote:
wrote:
KØHB wrote:
I think belief in magic IS a necessary requirement to really enjoy Amateur
Radio.
Depends on what you mean by "magic"...
10 meters, a couple years back. I was a fairly new ham, and was trying
out psk31 and enjoying it.
On 10 meters, I saw an amateur from Oz QSO'ing with someone I couln't see.
I called, and we had a nice QSO. We were both using about ten watts.
Good Copy. From just about as far away as you can get without coming back.
Magic.
I think it goes further. The great minds said, one way or another, that
they never stopped trying to be as children. They never stopped
striving for a sense of curiosity, wonderment and enjoyment at even the
simplest of things.
Yet too many of us abandon that as we "grow up" and come to put away
"childish" things. We abandon the imaginative and creative and, too
often, we move into nothing more than the tedious drudgery of the
nine-to-five and predictable work.
How much is lost when we abandon the joy and wonder of childhood and
all that it entails.
73 de Jim, N2EY