"Newps" wrote in message
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Ken Finney wrote:


This past Saturday was "Field Day", ham radio's national "holiday", think
of it as Oshkosh, but distributed across the country with the
participants in radio contact with each other. On a national level, they
do all the right things: alert the national media, have draft press
releases for local clubs to use, have lots of information for the
participants. For the first time, I went to a Field Day event this
Saturday.




As a nonpracticing ham I saw all of those things. I got a letter from the
local ham group about field day last week. I got my ticket in 1987,
quickly progressed to extra class, all while in college. Setup a shack
while I lived at home and quickly got about 190 countries. Got married
and really haven't done anything since. I have a two meter radio right
here at the computer desk but only use it to listen to the aircraft band.
If you're fascinated by radio ham radio can be fun but for everybody else
it has exactly zero relavance to peoples lives.

I expect many would say "If you're fascinated by aviation, it can be fun.
But for everybody else, it has exactly zero relevance to people's lives."
And both would claim they are relavant, and offer supporting documentation.