[GreenKeys] OT: Changes

[Jeffrey D Angus]

On 2/5/2014 12:22 AM, Keelan Lightfoot wrote:
> The appeal of amateur radio is going to change.
It already did.

But it's NOT Amateur radio that changed. It's society in
general. That's the way it's always been.

Messages have always been time delayed or sent as a
broadcast. (i.e., written mail or printed news.)

The Telephone changed all that. Instant communications.

Now with texting, email, Usenet News and forums the pendulum
has swung back towards "not real time" communications.

In a messaging format, Amateur radio has always been "real
time." Morse code, phone and RTTY. They've always relied on
a live operator at the other end. With only a few notable
exceptions,  WinLink as an example, it is still like that.

Technology changes and moves on. That's just a fact of life.
Mechanical TTY is now an anachronism. What used to be
taken for granted as "common operating procedures" is no
longer.

That there are those of us that enjoy mechanical machines, the
best we can hope for is that occasionally, someone else can
appreciate them as well.

Jeff-1.0
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