"John Smith I" wrote in message
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KH6HZ wrote:
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The "magic" of what was once amateur radio has long since left the hobby.
And, it had nothing to do with CW, in as much as you'd like to hate the
mode, hate the people who use it, and blame it for all the world's ills.

I see the world though other glasses. Is is not the medium which is no
longer useful. However, much of the practices, methods, uses and people
who were/are in amateur have outlived their time. I trust the youth to
change amateur into a new world, much as computers have done with
electronics on a whole. How many hams do you know who even have a pci
card sw receiver in their computers? How many hams build pci cards to
interface with their computers for amateur uses? How many hams write
articles in the radio rags on how to do computer/radio xmitters/rcvrs,
projects? How many could?


These things have been done in one way or another. That isn't new
technology by any stretch of the imagination. So why get excited about it?
Perhaps it was exciting 10 years ago when these things were being done but
not now. It just does not enhance the operating experience by any
appreciable amount.

Dee, N8UZE