[geeks] Moved to geeks: Cheap Ham radios (was Dayton Hamfest)

[Erie Patsellis]

I think some of it may have to do with the "craft" as it were. I am a 
photographer and while there are tons of people shooting pictures, not 
many building their own cameras, or even processing their own film. For 
some (like me) the craft aspect is as important a part of it as the 
actual photography, I know my cameras (at least the ones I built to 
solve specific problems) inside and out.



erie

Anthony Ortenzi wrote:
> Sridhar Ayengar said:
>   
>> Please don't feed the trolls.  8-)
>>     
>
> Please do explain, though, why people care about HAM.  At this point in
> time, as someone who's not been involved in HAM, it looks like long-range CB
> with cranky ol' geeks on it.
>
> In this day and age with communications like push-to-talk cell phones
> reminiscent of Star Trek communicators, the only appeal I can see in HAM is
> the way that you're closer in involvement to the transmission medium... that
> somehow remaining uninvolved with complex communication networks which
> "smartly" route your voice, you have a more "direct" connection with the
> person with whom you're talking.
>
> Which, of course, could be discounted as a dorky nostalgia.
>
> The "we'll be the only ones left after the big war" thing doesn't help with
> that impression.
>
> I'm open to hearing wonderful stories, but I can't, for the life of me,
> understand the draw.
>
> -Anthony
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