[TenTec] tenTec merger, etc.

[R. Eric Sluder - W9WLW via TenTec]

Paul,

In what I've read I believe you are spot on.  I think the ARRL started promoting us as volunteer communicators after WWII when the Navy wasn't willing to relinquish control of our HF spectrum and let Hams get back on the air.  I believe there was a lot of politicking if I am remembering correctly.

Eric
W9WLW

On May 22, 2014 9:09:59 AM EDT, Paul Gentry <phgentry at gmail.com> wrote:
|I disagree with the history you present below.  It was not as I have
|read
|"...for fun, it was not as a hobby, and it was not intended to create a
|group of technology experimenters that it became later."  It was
|experimentation and research at the beginning.  The technology
|experimenters is what it started with, became, and still is.  It was
|arguably for fun (enjoyment) because people passionate do what they
|love
|for fun, enjoy it, and can do nothing else.  Sometimes it turns into a
|job.  Benefit was seen to allow experimenters who had a passion for the
|physics of radio to learn by doing along with some regulation- the
|license.  No one at the turn of the 20th century envisioned an army of
|radio operators ready to serve the country.  Amateur Radio Emergency
|Service is arguably what you point out but it came much later...
|
|Just my take and obviously has little to do with TT radios.
|
|Paul K4BWG
|
|On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:28 AM, geoffrey mendelson <
|geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> wrote:
|
|> On 5/22/2014 7:28 AM, TTMaven wrote:
|>
|>> Your comments fit with my take... after attending the Homeland
|Security
|>> Forum at Dayton last week.  The government workers are getting ham
|>> licenses.  They think that gives them training as radio operators. 
|It
|>> appears they will be in charge, and we must work for them.  Not that
|is all
|>> bad, but we will not be in charge. The image of the ham operator
|showing up
|>> to save the day is long gone already.  Hams "might" be used as
|auxiliary
|>> operators, when there are not enough trained government guys, and
|hams will
|>> be working for the govt boys - not the other way around.
|>>
|>
|> The original idea behind ham radio was to create a pool of trained
|radio
|> operators in case of rapid need, e.g. war. It was not for fun, it was
|not
|> as a hobby, and it was not intended to create a group of technology
|> experimenters that it became later.
|>
|> That is why called the Amateur Radio Service.
|>
|> In other countries it is a sport (e.g. the Soviet Union), or an
|almost
|> ignored hobby, e.g. Israel. My SWAG is that here in Israel, there are
| as
|> many people with old Motorola and new Baofeng radios illegally using
|them
|> on PMR446 (the EU equivalent to FRS), and the "American"
|> frequencies (FRS and GMRS) as active hams on UHF and almost as many
|as on
|> VHF. :-(
|>
|> Geoff.
|>
|> --
|> Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
|> Jerusalem Israel.
|>
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