[SOC] Geek's and Nerd's ?

[Jerry]

I am sure many of us have told the 'young ones'..get off that computer 
or video game, and go 'play outside' !  Yet, we sit listening to static 
for hours and hours, into the wee hours of the AM, hoping to 'hear that 
Rare DX or whatever' !  Jan. 1922 QST;

/January //QST’s//banner cover headline read: Transatlantic Tests 
Succeed! – followed by a list of twenty CW and six spark stations whose 
signals had made it across during Godley’s adventures in Ardrossan. 
Inside, the lead article did not yet have all the details but 
proclaimed, “Transatlantic Tests Successful” and “WE GOT ACROSS!!!!!!”/

/“Excelsior!” crowed ARRL secretary Warner in his editorial as he 
recounted the skepticism with which an attempt at amateur transatlantic 
communications was met by professional communications engineers, and how 
certain they had been that amateurs could not possibly succeed.////The 
feat rocked the radio community./

/Warner continued:/

    /They had no idea it could be done – strong and steady signals night
    after night at a distance of three thousand miles, with an input of
    less than a kilowatt and the wave length two hundred meters! They’re
    wondering today why they put in 200-kilowatt machines and miles of
    500-foot towers and use wave lengths of many thousands of meters
    when a private citizen in his home in Podunk, Penn., with less than
    50 watts of C.W. power can do the same thing./


So..are We Not the 'Forefathers of the Geeks'..'Grandfather's of the 
Nerds'..the 'Pioneers of the Digital Mode'  ?   I don't care.. 'I have 
been called much worse' !  ;o)
Jerry
VE6CPP
p.s. article comments from; http://w2pa.net/HRH/crossings-iii-accolades/