Film camera's! I have a REAL nice high end (Japanese) camera my dad had, he spent a lot of money on it and had many lenses, special flash, etc. Since my wife had almost the same model, I looked on ebay to see what it was worth. Zero! Lots on ebay for $30.00 and they were not selling. I gave it to my son to play with.
Brett N2DTS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Wilhite" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [AMRadio] WABOOF - Good News on HAM RADIO > 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. ______________________________________________________________ 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.
