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Amateur Radio In 2050
February 16, 2005
Hams have historically been tinkers. We have developed many of the communication technologies seen in use today. While many think of amateur radio as a hobby that involves people who tinker with tubes, oscillator coils and transformers; I am left wondering what will happen in the next 40 - 50 years for Amateur Radio. Will it be "radio" as we know it today or will we evolve into a new communications evolution? So what may be in the future for ham radio? For example, will tomorrow's hams communicate long distances by bouncing modulated light waves from the sun using large dish reflectors into the deep fringes of space? Will we find a way to learn to harness the light and gigawatt power of the sun to achieve this powerful communication network in the future if it should even exist? Perhaps we may use a form of earth vibration modulation technology using Mother Nature as a new communication medium. Or, we might find a way to communicate using atoms as the vehicle for communications in the future. Will we be able to use atoms to send signals by compressing packets somehow into these atoms and then sending them over long distances along a narrow beam of light? Who knows? As we evolve into the future of Amateur Radio what do you think we will invent? Will the ARRL have new interplanetary DX entities? How do you envision the typical Radio Amateur in 2050? 73 Charles -- KC8VWM http://www.eham.net/articles/10250 |
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