[Boatanchors] A good idea ---- Lamenting about the down hillspiral

[Lawrence Mayhew]

Hi Nick,
Thanks for your effort to put this thread back into perspective.
You obviously have a great attitude and I believe a talent for writing.

"And all along I've been talking to boatanchor people on the air, meeting
them at hamfests, sharing info over the e-mail lists, etc. What great fun!
What a great bunch of people! And it is still incredible magic - vibrating
crystals, glowing tubes full of streams of invisible electrons, LC circuits
doing their crazy oscillatory dance, and all connected to a bunch of wires
hanging in the Carolina pines - and somehow, somehow, that magical
concoction lets me communicate with a newfound friend in Atlanta or
Cincinnatti or Ulan Bator - with no wires! - with nothing but Maxwell's
equations to carry voice, code, RTTY, whatever - what an incredible magical
experience!

I am a 75 yr old retired Electronics Engineer and I have never heard anyone
say it better.
Regards,.......Larry in Seattle