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!
