[TowerTalk] Ham Radio a la NY Times

[Stu Greene]

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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