On 11/26/13 10:08 , dxAce wrote:


David Kaye wrote:

wrote

Very nice indeed. Is the autograph personally signed or auto penned? Good
memories with your dad, radios and shortwave listening. That is what makes
the hobby so special and also what makes it so sad that the it is on life
support. This generation is really missing out and they are too ignorant
to even know it.


Too ignorant? No, they can communicate with people in Russia or anywhere
else via a few keyboard clicks. Why go out and buy a special radio and hang
a big antenna just to listen to noise and fading -- if they can even pick up
the wanted signal at all?

Because it's fun?




Because it's a lot harder to block the communication to the intended
target by third parties at the receive end.