Instead of predicting "The Death Of Amateur Radio" and hashing over useless
statistics --
How about we promote Amateur Radio and mentor new folks?
How many doom sayers here help the hobby with training, elmering, and
emergency services ?
In Southern Calif -- we have three classes running at elementary and high
schools, lots of Emergency training as well.

I can tell you that Amateur Radio was highly valuable and praised during the
Southern Calif fires a few years back -- despite the generalization below of
"boring stuff".
Its only boring if you are a bore.

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"Bathrooman" wrote in message
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For more than 50 years, some hams have been yelling "Ham Radio is
Dying!" "Ham Radio is Dying!" They came up with all kinds of bright
ideas. Incentive licensing...school clubs...extra-easy study
guides...dumbing down the licensing tests...no code licenses...on and
on. Why do some hams believe ham radio is dying? They are bored with
the hobby themselves! They put together some equipment, strung up
antennas, exchanged signal and weather reports, chased certificates,
collected QSL cards and after a few years or more of this they ask: "Is
this all there is?" Bah Humbug...yup that's about all it is. So what?
What more do you want it to be?