On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:25:00 -0600 Jon Ogden <jono@enteract.com> writes:
>
>>>To be frank, ham radio has NOT been the technology leader for many,
>
>>>many years. That is falacy. Put it this way, the concept of
>cellular
>>>telephones was developed in the 1950s!
>>
>>Maybe ham radio was not the direct leader, but it would be
>interesting to
>>see how many of the new developments were done in industry by hams.
>
>I would agree with that. You are right. Much of the development of
>the
>technology was done by engineers/folks who happened to have ham radio
>as
>their hobby. No question about it. I know one of the inventors of
>the
>transistor was a ham as well as I am sure many more high profile
>scientists. Would they have made the inventions w/o ham radio? Who
>knows......
>
>73,
>
>Jon
>KE9NA
Try it the other away around. Would those inventors have gone ahead with
advanced studies without the teen age influence of ham radio?
To say hams were the cause is too simplistic.
73 Carl KM1H
>
>
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>Jon Ogden
>KE9NA
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