On 07/05/07 10:15 pm Donald Chester wrote:
>>> A more likely scenario is that more hams will be required to use club
>>> stations. W6YX and N6IJ are two really good club stations within an
>>> hour or so of here. N6IJ is even planning to support remote operation
>>> one of these days.
> That sounds exactly like amateur radio in the old Soviet Union. I used
> to listen to Radio Moscow back in the 50's and 60's. They would
> sometimes describe amateur radio in the USSR. First, you had to take
> out a "listening licence" in order to SWL. Then once you became
> licensed to transmit, you usually operated from a club station. There
> were very few individual ham stations located in
> personal residences.
>
> Many aspects of life in USA are getting to be more and more like it was
> reported to be in that country we were taught to be afraid of in the 50's.
I think that until not too long ago it was much the same in Taiwan, that
bastion of aggressively anti-Communist "freedom", with which the USA has
an unofficial but "special" relationship: neither has an official
Consulate in each other's country, but each has an office that does
everything an official Consulate would do. A regime doesn't have to be
Communist to be totalitarian.
73
Alan NV8A
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