Eddy, Ham Radio is dead, extinct. It has been replaced with Internet Radio.
I once held an amateur radio licence; it now belongs in a museum. Some how
good things don't last forever. I have had a lot of fun when the hobby was
amateur radio. I guess it is time to move on and find another fun hobby.
And to those who enjoy internet radio; try and have some fun knowing you
just killed amateur radio.
Doug
I wasn't born in Saskatchewan, but I got here as soon as I could.
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Hi Guys,
Is the day very far off in the distant future when the physical human
element won't even be needed at a radio station on the eve of a contest...?
Just programme the event into the computer, hook it up to the rig...and then
go off to bed. The next day you meander down to the shack, coffee in hand &
rubbing the sleep out of your eyes, to learn that in your absence, your
station made some 5,000 QSOs, AND DXCC, twice over!
Remember "Dr. DX" of the 1980's...? Shades of days yet to come---if ,
indeed, those days are not here already.
At the risk of sounding like a dinosaur---on second thought, who cares? The
dinosaurs ruled the earth for untold millions of years, to man's single
million---just as insurance companies & lawyers are spelling the demise of
kids' playground toys and group get-togethers, computers will spell the end
of the very essence that makes Ham radio fun. At least to dinosaurs like
yours truly, anyway.
~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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