I believe that to be likely as well, depending what effect the changing
demographics have upon frequency allocations. But we will probably be
much fewer in number ... the people in the pictures from Dayton look a
year older each and every year and that can't go on forever.
As I said before, maybe somebody will come up with some truly new
approaches for ham radio and that will make a difference, but it's
rather telling that the majority of the posts in this thread reminisce
about what intrigued us about ham radio 40 or 60 years ago instead of
what we might do to change it for the future. The inertia is quite
considerable.
The number of people who look to ham radio to experiment technically is
going to be pretty small ... there are many more relevant technologies
today that will actually lead to an actual job. The number of people
who will look to ham radio purely to communicate is trivial ... there
are far cheaper and more reliable means to do so. I guess there will
always be a need to have a backup way to communicate if/when the
apocalypse happens, but that's going to be really niche.
I'm not even convinced that we need to figure out how to save the
hobby. It's the nature of the world that things run their course and
they either adapt to remain useful and/or desirable or they die ... or
at least diminish to the level of novelty. I don't see why ham radio
should be any different.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 12/14/2019 7:13 PM, KENT TRIMBLE wrote:
Everything is renewable.
Amateur Radio will never die as long as it offers so many niches where
the scientific interests of lay-people can find a home.
73,
Kent K9ZTV
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