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Removal of Morse Code from Amateur License Requirements...
"Travis Jordan" wrote in message . .. I'll add to that. True amateur radio operators can build spark gap receivers and transmitters from scratch using materials they have in their junk boxes. I'm old but I don't remember spark gap receivers The problem with amateur radio is we are not generating much interest in the younger set. Go to a HAM swap meet and all you see is us old farts and our grandchildren. Even us HAMS are using the internet to communicate now. We should take this to 40 meters Could this be a problem with technical subjects in general? When we were kids we were interested in photography, radio, model airplanes, cars and so on. Don't see many kids doing that stuff now. Remember the excitement of your first radio contact? I got so excited I couldn't copy the code at all. How about the first contact in Australia or Japan? If you try to tell a youngster about it now, they'll look at you like you're on something. Having an autopatch is not exciting when everyone has a cell phone. Remember calling someone in a distant city and having them patch you through to a relative or friend? Now with three cents a minute long distance and so on it's a different world. 73, Al |
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It's not free. Someone paid the tax-collecting bureaucrats.
Probably yourself 10 years ago, with more and for a longer time. No jealousy here. Collin KC8TKA |
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