In article . net,
KØHB wrote:

| Question 1: If Icom/Ten-Tec/Yaesu-Standard/MFJ/Kenwood-Trio left the amateur
| radio equipment market this afternoon, in ten years amateur radio would be:
|
| a) Revitalized as a experimenters technical hobby
| b) Extinct

C) alive and well, but not revitialized or even really changed.

After all, 1) these aren't the only manufacturers of ham band
equipment, and 2) the majority of the equipment I own is 10+ years old
already (I'm cheap) and it works fine, so I'd imagine that the
equipment made yesterday will probably work fine in 10 years too.
(And my equipment probably will too, as long as I don't let out too
much more magic smoke ...)

| Question 2: If you were 'inventing' amateur radio today, would you
| include a Morse examination in the license qualification?

When amateur radio was originally `invented', there was no licence
qualificiations or even license involved at all. The radio spectrum
was sort of the `wild west' ...

If you wanted to `invent' amateur radio _today_, you'd have to explain
more about what you mean to answer the question accurately. Do all
hams suddenly disappear and we're starting from scratch? Are the hams
still around (and therefore the traditions probably would be too), but
the existing regulations are all thrown out and rewritten from
scratch?

--
Doug McLaren, , AD5RH
"I don't know the scientific explaination, BUT FIRE MAKES IT GOOD!"
--Homer Simpson