excerpt quoted (thanks to AF2C) from an article about ham radio in the 5
March edition of the NY Times. So much for journalistic accuracy
> Traditional ham radio has hardly disappeared. Practitioners,
though,
> are mainly the over-40 crowd, people who were bitten by the radio
> bug well before the computer and Internet revolutions. Often
living on
> hilltops and operating 4,000-watt transmitters ? the legal maximum
> ? and towering antennas, these hams are most active in early
> evening. That is when the planet's outer atmosphere, the mirrorlike
> ionosphere, is protected from blasts of solar wind and is most
placid;
> that makes it best able to bounce the hams' dots, dashes and voices
> all over the dark side of the Earth.
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