On Feb 25, 12:22 pm, "KH6HZ" wrote:
wrote:
I disagree. Extremely few people are interested in amateur radio
these days. Those who were and were turned off or turned away by the
Morse Code exam have found other interests satisfied by the web or
massive amounts of cable/satellite television.

Assuming for the moment that what you say is true (and I completely
disagree),

(of course you do)

then what would have presented those people from simply losing
interest and moving on to those other things anyway?

They have...

Isn't that pretty much
what happened with the "Honey Do" hams in the mid-to-late 90's?

I thought you said your wife got you a ham license so she could keep
track of you.

Mike, it turns people off and it turns people away. Besides, amateur
radio isn't sexy.

30 years ago radio had more "magic" to it.

Thirty years ago was exactly the right time to have done it. Thanks
for mentioning it.

Today, with the huge number of
wireless devices in society, it simply doesn't seem as 'high tech' as it
used to.

Yet so many of the Extras want todays written exam to be the
equivalent of an MSEE.