honestjohn wrote:
"The Duce" wrote in message
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The test will continue to dumb down because ham radio is dying. There's a
new radio game in town, its called cell phone. Like it or not anyone can
get
a license to use them.
I've been in ham radio for over 30 years. The same discussion is going on
today as was when I first started. It has never been settled and never
will
to satisfy all. Equipment prices will skyrocket as the number of hams
continues to decline. In fact they already have. I laugh when I see
radio's
like an IC-706 that someone is trying to sell on Ebay for $900 plus when
only a few years ago new ones were being had at Hamvention under $600.
Radio
is dying folks enjoy it while the government allows us to have it. There
is
no "use" for all the Techs anymore.Allthis brainpower should be put
together
to find a use for your existence instead of continually hashing the same
old
dead beaten horse.
Scanners and listening to the cops will die out too. Each police car will
have a wireless broadband set-up and the individual cops will carry around a
wireless link device to communicate to the computer in their car and that
will be "THE END" for scanners!
The handwriting is on the wall!
HJ
Hey, you just stole that idea from "Chicken Little!"
JS