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One of the reasons that is given very often is that Amateur radio is in some sort of competition with the Internet. Let us look at this theory. Here's another 'white paper' theory: Kids & INTERNET: Instant Messager, Chat Rooms, Videoconference in REAL TIME with your friends, Play games (Halo for example) over a Network with your friends, send messages via cellphone to e-mail and visa-versa, computers are cheap $300 for a P4 fully loaded at C-shows...etc...etc... Kids and HAM RADIO: Radios can be expensive, big antennas needed if you want HF, all to talk to are sour old men (or retro-bigots if your on 75 Meters at night) who hate kids for the most part, packet-radio a joke at 9600 baud (circa 1981 speed!!) compared to DSL, radios expensive to fix if they break and most radios (except yaesu) are built like a cheap VCR kids on ham few and far between.....etc any questions? ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;;;; Nope. You just about covered it all. That leaves only the holdout dregs of CB who are now getting Tech licenses and migrating to two meters. You can hear them every day on the local repeaters. They use CB slang such as "hate and discontent", "make my phone go ringy-dingy", "I heard that, I did", and the all-time favorite? "Ten four, good buddy." They buy a Rad Shack 2 meter ht and hammer the repeaters all day long. Ask one of them to switch over to simplex and you can hear the confusion in their voices. "Simplex. What is that?" or, "I can't get out that far." Oh, and for laughs just listen to the Techies as they give each other signal reports on a repeater. They tell each other they are full quieting and have good audio. Oh, duh! The ultimate hoot for me was when last week a couple of Techies were hammering the daylights out of a local repeater. One was getting out of range and his Techie buddie suggested they move to another repeater. What did I hear but the one Tech say to the other, "I am gonna QSY to my truck." Lids. Lids and more Lids. (ditttos on the Yaesu gear. I wouldn't own anything but) |
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