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It's very interesting to see the emotion instead of solid logic. Ham radio
has several elements which draw people. One is the technical side of the hobby and another is the talking side. Japan and their rice box radios has brought to the surface the talking side. If you listen, you'll hear tons of QSO and people just talking their heads off. It really doesn't matter much if it is on a rice box or on a computer for those people .. yet you hear the emotional responses about saving the bands etc .. YUK! I live in a close neighborhood where 200 watts gets into telephones and computer speakers and still some TV's and I gotta hang antennas everywhere and make my house look like it's caught in a spider web. Now there BPL and solar flare issues and the bands are terrible .. they suck. There's deed restrictions, lawyers, PRB1, the ARRL the FCC. I can't talk 10 miles from here on 75! Then there Echolink. It won't do much for the technical side but unless you have used it a few times you couldn't possibly understand how nice it is to sit back, relax, and talk to your buddies without the jerks throwing carriers and hog calls and pork butt songs, static crashes, dead bands, contests, no antennas, no QRMers, no RFI ,, just hours of pleasant chatting with hams all over the world. I have met so many nice guys and had a lot of fun with the LINK and to those who want to fight it .. go ahead. When all you can get from your radio is buzz pop click and your neighbor standing on your doorstep screaming for you to get off the radio .. feed your computer sound card with a D104 and give Echolink a try. I love ham radio but Echolink is a nice supplement. "MD" wrote in message .. . "g3zhi" wrote in message ... There are now over 132,000 callsigns registered in 139 different countries. There are daily additions, changes and deletions with over 1,000 new calls validated each week. We might as well kiss our frequency allocations goodbye. If we don't use them, were going to lose them. |
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