Do You Still Find Amateur Radio Interesting?

Marcos Eliziario asks: "Soon, I'll be taking the exams for a Brazilian, Class-D, Ham Radio license (Equivalent to an American Technician License) and, as I was reading about the subject, I wondered what today's geek thinks about amateur radio. In the past, Ham Radio was very popular among nerds, however with the Internet boom it seems that interest on radio, among the younger generations, is becoming dimmer each day. A lot of cool things can be done with radio, like building your own equipment, digital modes (btw, few people know that Packet Radio was born on the amateur's rank), and long distance contacts. The gear is cool, there's a lot of things to be learned about propagation, and today's Hams even use satellites to talk. Do you think that we could see a renaissance of Ham Radio among 21st century techies?"

Comments

Can you comment on the FCC ussurpations?

[NRAdude]

I've been a ham for 35 years now. (Damn, I'm an old fart.) I'm still active, and am looking seriously at the Icom D-Star networked digital radio technology as the next big thing.

Get the ticket. There's a lot out there. ...de K5ZC

Greetings holder of Jay Maynard.

What say you on the FCC using threat and duress and coercion to compel the people into a contract for their copyright SIGN and private patent of Codified Regulations?

Channel 21, until you fatass pig-eating hams get your corporate thighs back into District of Columbia where you all belong. /s/ MUNDT