 TzaleProud Libertarian ConservativePremium
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NYC Metro | Good News Thank God! Hams can rejoice over this!
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| Ham's still exist, really? Internet radio is where it's at. |
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TzaleProud Libertarian ConservativePremium
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NYC Metro | said by scotty21 :
Ham's still exist, really? Internet radio is where it's at.
Are you kidding me? Clearly you don't know what Amateur Radio is about... We don't play music, we talk using dozens of different 'modes' ranging from FM/AM to SSB (LSB/USB), Satellite Communications (we have our own up there), moonbounce, HF, CW morse), packet radio and tons of other digital modes. There was also 30,000 new hams in the last year. There is a steady trend of new people coming into the Amateur Radio service. We provide a solid backbone in this nation's emergency communications infrastructure.... And for tech geeks, it's the perfect convergence of social fun with electronics and computers.
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| Heck, Tzale; amateur radio is a lot more than morse code and radio. It includes two different forms of *television* (slow-scan television and fast-scan television, AKA SSTV and FSTV) that are used, among other things, to help train *broadcast* (AKA commercial) radio and television engineers (the business end of any TV stations's operations); the current nearly-automated radio/television transmitter wouldn't *exist* without the pioneering work of the Expert and Technician-class hams! (Over half the commercial radio, and a larger percentage of the commercial television, station engineers not only started in amateur radio, but remain current and involved today.)
Also, to a large extent, amateur radio helped keep Hewlett-Packard alive before computers (same applies to Tektronix and Fluke).
In short, a good portion of what remains of the electronic industry in the United States (and darn near *all* of the PC industry) owes it's livelihood (if not life) to amateur radio and hams.
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TzaleProud Libertarian ConservativePremium
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NYC Metro | said by PGHammer:Heck, Tzale; amateur radio is a lot more than morse code and radio. It includes two different forms of *television* (slow-scan television and fast-scan television, AKA SSTV and FSTV) that are used, among other things, to help train *broadcast* (AKA commercial) radio and television engineers (the business end of any TV stations's operations); the current nearly-automated radio/television transmitter wouldn't *exist* without the pioneering work of the Expert and Technician-class hams! (Over half the commercial radio, and a larger percentage of the commercial television, station engineers not only started in amateur radio, but remain current and involved today.) Also, to a large extent, amateur radio helped keep Hewlett-Packard alive before computers (same applies to Tektronix and Fluke). In short, a good portion of what remains of the electronic industry in the United States (and darn near *all* of the PC industry) owes it's livelihood (if not life) to amateur radio and hams. Do you really want to kill the platinum goose? Hell no!
I'm an Amateur Radio operator... I just wrote up a quick post, didn't really feel articulate or detail oriented at the time 
But your post is dead on.
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