Topband: Brave New World

[Eddy Swynar]

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