[AMRadio] WABOOF - Good News on HAM RADIO

[D. Chester]

> Amateur radio operators enjoy personal (and often worldwide)
> wireless communications with each other and are able to support
> their communities with emergency and disaster communications if
> necessary, while increasing their personal knowledge of
> electronics and radio theory. However, proliferation of the
> Internet and its popularity among youth has caused the decline of
> amateur radio. In the past five years alone, the number of people
> holding active ham radio licenses has dropped by 50,000, even
> though Morse Code is no longer a requirement.
>
>
> Jim/W5JO

But one thing amateur radio has that the internet doesn't have is 
independence from the infrastructure.  If we can find the electricity to 
power the rig, we can string up a wire and communicate worldwide even if 
every  internet server and every telephone in the country is out of 
commission.  A generator and some fuel is all it takes to keep us in 
business if every utility service is down.

Don k4kyv



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