On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 12:23:15 AM UTC-6, David Kaye wrote:
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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?

IGNORANT:lacking knowledge or awareness in general. My choice of the word was deliberate because the majority of young people have no idea what shortwave radio is.

Communicate with keyboard clicks? We are talking shortwave radio listening not ham radio. Nor is hanging "big antenna" necessary. I listened to shortwave radio on an inexpensive Radio Shack Astronaut 4 radio off the whip loud and clear more often than not as a teen.

Why? Well why do fathers take their children to baseball games when it can more easily be watched on television? Why take them hunting when you can just go to the supermarket and buy meat?

It is how life long memories are created and fondly kept e.g. Dxace's with his father and radio. If that needs to be explained to you then no explanation will be sufficient.