Funny today I received a message from a friend that listed 24 thing about to become extinct in America. I don't know who published the list but it wasn't anyone involved in ham radio. Ham Radio was about # 16 on the list. It was there along with Yellow Pages, film cameras, classified ads, movie rental places and the #1 selection was family farms.
16. Ham Radio Amateur radio operators enjoy personal (and often worldwide) wireless communications with each other and are able to support their communities with emergency and disaster communications if necessary, while increasing their personal knowledge of electronics and radio theory. However, proliferation of the Internet and its popularity among youth has caused the decline of amateur radio. In the past five years alone, the number of people holding active ham radio licenses has dropped by 50,000, even though Morse Code is no longer a requirement. Jim/W5JO ----- Original Message ----- > > Realistically, I don't think ham radio has much future, not when > you can > call someone on a cell phone, text them, surf the web, do VoIP, > etc, its > kind of silly to have a basement full of equipment so you can talk > with the > other 20 old guys about their basement full of equipment. I don't > see much > to attract young people to the hobby. > Brett > N2DTS > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "D. Chester" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 3:34 PM > Subject: Re: [AMRadio] WABOOF - Good News on HAM RADIO > > >> >>> WABOOF WHAT A BUNCH OF OLD FARTS!! ( I can say that because I am >>> old >>> too! ) >>> >>> Here a guy is trying to convey a little good news and all you >>> guys can do >>> is make disparaging remarks!! ... >>> A new ham is a new ham, it doesn't matter what the initial >>> motivation >>> was, >>> if they have a license it's our job as Elmer's to mold them into >>> amateur >>> radio operators! Don't sit around and whine!!! Get up and do >>> something to >>> help them appreciate and enjoy the hobby. >>> >>> K3PID Ron H >> >> To me, what really counts is hams who gain HF privileges, and who >> might >> potentially become AM'ers. I doubt that would be of interest to >> many of >> the >> shack-on-a-belt wannabe cops the the least bit. But maybe a few >> will >> become >> curious enough to listen to what's on HF. There certainly isn't >> anything >> much on shortwave to attract SWL's any more. >> >> Once upon a time most new hams who didn't happen to have a >> personal >> mentor, >> first got exposed to radio by listening to foreign broadcasts on >> AM radios >> that also included a couple of shortwave bands, and ran across >> hams >> conversing on AM phone. When most hams converted to SSB, we lost >> that >> avenue, and CB became the new gateway. Now that interest in CB >> has about >> fizzled, what do we have left? >> >> Don k4kyv >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net >> AMRadio mailing list >> Searchable Archives: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >> List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html >> List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] >> with >> the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html > Post: mailto:[email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] > with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
