> 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
But one thing amateur radio has that the internet doesn't have is independence from the infrastructure. If we can find the electricity to power the rig, we can string up a wire and communicate worldwide even if every internet server and every telephone in the country is out of commission. A generator and some fuel is all it takes to keep us in business if every utility service is down. Don k4kyv _______________________________________________________________ This message was typed using the DVORAK keyboard layout. http://www.mwbrooks.com/dvorak/ http://gigliwood.com/abcd/ ______________________________________________________________ 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.
