[NCARC] Technology: Ham Radio Still Growing In the iStuff Age

[Mike Bates]

This article was on slashdot.org.  So very interesting.

Mike - N7DQ



      Technology: <http://slashdot.org/tag/technology> Ham Radio Still
      Growing In the iStuff Age <http://slashdot.org/> on Tuesday April
      06, @02:19PM

Posted by kdawson <http://twitter.com/kdawson> Tuesday April 06, @02:19PM
from the dah-dah-dit-dit-dit dept.
communications <http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=communications>
vhfer writes /"From NPR comes this story about old-school communications
in the age of Twitter
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125586086&ft=1&f=1019>:
'Only a few years ago, blogs listed ham radio alongside 35 mm film and
VHS tape as technologies slated to disappear. They were wrong. Nearly
700,000 Americans have ham radio licenses --- up 60 percent from 1981, a
generation ago. And the number is growing.' The article goes on to say
that while there's plenty of 60-plus year old hams, there's also a
growing contingent of teens. I just met a 14-year-old, licensed in 2009.
Getting rid of the Morse Code requirement sure helped in that regard. So
does the fact that the test questions (and the answers) are freely
available, legally, on the Internet. Study, take the test, hang the
license certificate on the wall. Your geek cred gets an immediate boost.
And who knows? Maybe the next time there's a Haiti-earthquake-sized
disaster, you'll be one of the thousands of ham volunteers who provided
the only communications in/out of Haiti for weeks following the quake,
not to mention all of the tactical comms the country had for nearly a
month."/
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