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

[Sandy]

I'm afraid I must concur!

The "boatanchor" crowd is dwindling everyday though!  I was proud to be a 
part of it before transistors took over.  I dreamed of a small handheld 
"walkie-talkie" that would connect me with the country and possibly the 
world.  It exists in what is now the magic of the cellular telephone.

Unfortunately, this has taken a lot of the "magic" out of just communicating 
with just a few watts wirelessly without ANY "infrastructure", computers or 
other "support", for a lot of the "newbies" in amateur radio.  They have 
truly missed the "golden era" of amateur radio which will never repeat 
itself.

I have met a lot of swell fellows, both old and young, at hamfests, who 
remember those days or are trying to relive the "era"!

73,

Sandy W5TVW
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence Mayhew" <lmayhew4 at comcast.net>
To: "'Nick England'" <nick at 3rdtech.com>; <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 2:41 PM
Subject: RE: [Boatanchors] A good idea ---- Lamenting about the down 
hillspiral


> 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
>
> _______________________________________________


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