[TowerTalk] Fees for Amateur Radio

[David Jordan]

Haha...people in this country pay upwards of $120 a month just to watch TV -
the vast wasteland of colorized pixels...and that crowd is now spending a
few thousand dollars each for HDTV sets...its not the cost that is the
source of the decline in the hobby.  Its just the way it is...radio was a
big deal 50-60 years ago, it was high tech...its not high tech anymore...and
with cellular people can communicate anywhere anytime for pennies...

Enjoy it for what it is...it still beats collecting stamps ;-)

73,
Dave
Wa3gin


J. Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT wrote:
> We recently had a local couple move to Australia.
>
> I noted that there were new provisions for visiting operators to get
> licenses during their visit, so I got curious as to what Australians pay
for
> their regular Amateur License fees and was SHOCKED!