Some people worry a lot that the Internet is providing an attractive alternative to ham radio, particularly for the young. There is one dimension that clearly distinguishes the two, to the advantage
There seems to be a number of people who get fascinated with RADIO. I don't think it has ever been a large percentage of the population. When I was in high school, 4 out of a total of about 800 stude
Hello Pete I hate to disagree with you but the youngsters do have a place to compete on the internet. They play games against each other or on teams ( SO and Multi-multi in contesters terms) on seve
Without commenting on the rest of Ward's thoughtful discussion of the QST issue, I must reply, "Not the same at all." On-line gaming is nothing but chess by telephone, updated for the kid environment
The POINT is that these are the kids that used to get into ham radio and now they aren't. They're exactly the same when it comes to fascinating eager, bright and COMPETITIVE kids. Sorry - they ARE th
Ward...(and the cc to the list is so the rest of you know where I stand as well ;) Your commentary is the most sensible I've read in a long, long time. I don't see faulty reasoning in any of it! 'zm
There is plenty of online gaming (not casino) that is very popular. You get to play your favorite PC game, not against the computer, but against another gamer. The "game" is definitely different, but
As an old Doom player from the dark ages, of course I acknowledge that computer gaming exists on the Internet. I feel that what is unique about radio sport is the competitive aspect of the communicat
Good question. I think radio contesting would be extremely popular with the young. Unfortunately, it seems that we (not just the League) have been unable to capitalize. It is certain that the ARRL fe
And Morse is more obscure than Perl? $city =~ s/(\w+)/\u\L$1/g; Seriously, a certain part of the hacker (in the good sense) community seems to enjoy obfuscated programming. Surely fluency in Morse w
think it might be a net gain. How can that be a money-saver? --K6NA -- CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/ Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST@contesting.com
Although some of the posts may have deteriorated to this issue (and money is ALWAYS an issue), the main goal, at least as *I* read in K1RO's post http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/200201/msg001