Exactly. That's probably where the main difference lies.
We, "old farts" (per Mike, VA3MW), are still looking at HAM Radio as at
AMATEUR RADIO, where radio is the main word. We still have fun building
some of the equipment, antennas, we like experiment with them, etc.
The "other guys" are looking at it as at some kind kind of computer
game, sometimes having no idea what RF or even antenna is. Somebody else
(a business venture) is offering emulation of HAM Radio for them.
Different angle views.
Yuri VE3DZ
On 4/2/2021 7:02 AM, Ray Higgins wrote:
Young people are attracted to contesting - it’s like gaming to them. Just look at CWT results - you have
some playing with the best in the world. Two of the youths actually experimented in a M/2 distributed in CWT at
the 0300 session this Weds and made 300 Q’s and 70,000+ points but didn’t submit a score because the
category doesn’t exist, they did it to have fun. These are just some of the cool things you may not be
hearing or seeing but it’s actually happening.
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