At 09:38 PM 7/17/2008, Ben Jackson wrote:
No, the technology available to youths today has become so pervasive that the majority of non-techies is using it. There are still the geeks and nerds sitting in the back room playing with technological toys, they just into Ham Radio. They think Ham Radio is a technological dead end and a just a bunch of old guys talking to each other about their medical problems. Sadly, for the most part, they're right.
Well, that's partly a problem of limited perception on their part, and also a failure of the ham community to market itself as a place for communication experimenters to play and try new things. I for one have learnt a LOT of useful stuff about VoIP technology and managing large networks, as well as having had a lot of fun tinkering with various systems and making a few small contributions back to the hobby. :-)
| The wanting to learn about things technical is considered | anti-social by today's youth.
I think there's always a large part of the population not interested in learning the guts of technology, and there is a certain percentage that lives for that sort of thing, though not a lot of those know the opportunities ham radio has to offer, especially in the software, DSP and digital communications fields, as well as weak signal arena.
Now off to configure Asterisk as a radio node... Another skill set that could be used in industry. ;)
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