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How Popular Is/Was Amateur Radio
On May 8, 3:36�am, "Dee Flint" wrote:
"AF6AY" wrote in message When I licensed back in 1992, the majority of the people in the class and at the various test sessions as I went up the ladder were these "honey-do" h ams and the family group communications types. This type of use was heavily promoted to non-hams by hams of the day. I heard a lot of chit chat o n the repeaters, including discussions on errands etc, between family members as they traveled around town. While there is no issue with this, the down side was that many became inactive as they got cell phones. Only a few seem ed to carry forward into other areas of ham radio activity. Well, I was curious about that, wondering if it was some kind of local or regional thing. Here in the populous southwestern corner of the USA there didn't seem to be too much of that. In the Greater Los Angeles area (population roughly 8 million and spread out over a large area), the LOS repeaters were carrying lots of club activities with those clubs involved in amateur radio doings rather than the "honey-do" kind of thing. 73, Len AF6AY |
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