I still have three vehicles with AM radios. I watch OTA TV, when my cell
service goes out I call them up on my wired landline to report it and then pop
a CD into the changer and listen to it on my multi-speaker audio system.
While I am typing this on my office computer my radio in the shack just worked
3G0YM on 20-meter FT8.
On Thursday, June 25, 2026 at 04:26:10 AM MST, Rob Atkinson via Topband
<[email protected]> wrote:
>every piece of consumer equipment in your home and the homes of your
>neighbors would be turning flips when you transmitted,
That's not really as big of a problem now compared to 10 or 20 years
ago. Almost no one gets OTA TV. Most people are on cell phones, or
VOIP via shielded cable. People don't listen to music with stereos
and speakers now except for old farts like me. Most people use ear
buds and spotify. They watch TV streams over internet. Since almost
everything now is digital, fiber optic, bluetooth, wifi, you can run
QRO on medium wave and HF and not worry about a torch carrying mob at
your door. It's really a good time to be a ham as far as that's
concerned.
73
Rob
K5UJ
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