Topband: Question...

[Eddy Swynar]

Hi Guys,

Wow...! What an interesting question I've posed re. my fictional "...working-North-Korea-from-a-remote-location" scenario...! 

Amazingly enough, fully 7 of the direct respondents to me stated that---in one way, shape, or form---one COULD, indeed, have the physical ability to do just what I proposed...but whether it would be legal, or not, was questioned by about half of those respondents, & nearly everyone made mention of the morality / honour in doing such a thing.

The genie is surely out of the bottle, as somebody pointed out earlier. There are cheaters & "...win-at-any-cost" types in every field of endeavour---Ham radio is certainly no exclusion to this---and no doubt, more than a few of the rules will be "vulcanized" by some, as they have always been...

But know what...? I personally don't care. I don't have a berth for my computer in my shack, & neither do I plan to set one up there any time soon, either. And as I thought about the issue, it suddenly dawned upon me: the Amateur world is probably, right now, at a cross-roads much as I think it it was in the 1930's, & 50's, when self-styled "...REAL Hams" still built their own super-duper receivers, from scratch, and thumbed their noses at those "appliance operators" who purchased the offerings from Hallicrafters, RME, Hammarlund, etc. Somehow the hobby managed to survive through that well enough, & I'm sure people will somehow find a way to incorporate this latest "incursion" into our comfort zones, as well.

"C'est la vie...!" after all...

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ