[CQ-Contest] Somewhere in the Future

[Ward Silver]

>> Said alternately, is ham radio about *us* or is it about ham radio? 
>> Perhaps
>> Part 97.1 can offer guidance in this regard.
>>
>> 73, Ward N0AX
>>
>
> Well, that's the ole chicken and egg paradox. If there were no ham radio,
> would there be any "us" (in ham radio) -  or if there were no "us", would
> there be any ham radio?  What would the FCC do if there were no licensees
> and license applicants?
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ

Happily reassign our spectrum to some dreary utility data scheme so that 
little children will hear the roaring buzz on their parent's tube-dead, 
no-antenna shortwave radio and imagine they are listening to the cockpit of 
a DC-3.  As I did lo those many years ago.

73, Ward N0AX