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NYC Metro | reply to n2jtx
Re: ROFL said by n2jtx:said by markopoleo:“As a matter of fact, ham radio people are often the first to adopt new technology and enjoy playing with it," Says the retired ww1 vet who just got around to unpacking his new ham radio his parents got him on his birthday. [SARCASM]Nice analogy[/SARCASM] I was doing e-mail, FTP and TELNET with TCP/IP over 2 Meter packet radio in 1990. What were you doing? EXACTLY!
These people don't realize how much Ham Radio is intertwined with really modern technology. They think Ham Radio is just CB radio with old pompous old guys who feel special that they are "licensed." It ain't nothing like CB radio and a lot of those old guys REALLY earned their licenses. Making a contact with someone in Saudi Arabia via the internet is easy, making that contact with NO wires your OWN radio station is far different. That is what people don't realize, it's not just for the "talk" but also for the "challenge" to connect two points. Digital Modes, Analog Modes, Echolink, Earth-Moon-Earth, Satellite Operations, Meteor Scatter (bouncing signals off an incoming meteorites ionized trail) etc...
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