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What is killing amateur radio is that for most young people it is not
relevant. When you can chat face to face anywhere in the world with a PC
and cell phone they ( understandably) don't see the attraction or
experience the thrill of hanging up a wire and waiting for
sunset/sunrise for that 10 min opening to send a few snippets of text
via Morse code through the noise with� someone on the other side of the
planet. Many aspects of amateur radio have become curious anachronism's
like sewing your own clothes and making you own butter. We are killing
amateur not with FT8 but with our own worn out genes because those of us
who practice "the old ways" are dying and soon we will be dying at a
faster rate than younger players will coming to experience the ritual of
Wouf hong (sp?)
Dave
NR1DX
On 10/13/2019 2:15 PM, w5zn@w5zn.org wrote:
OK I'm confused......was it remotes or FT8 that killed amateur radio??
Or maybe the 50 other chicken little proclamations that did?
I need professional help to sort this all out (that's a given, so
please don't comment on that condition!)
73 Joel W5ZN
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