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   * A platform to tinker and build equipment using the latest technologies. Now kids learn to program computers.
-> <fs xx-large>"<</fs>Instead, many [younger hams] are interested in the capacity for public service, such as providing communications in the wake of a disaster, or event comms for activities like city marathons.">
+> "<Instead, many [younger hams] are interested in the capacity for public service, such as providing communications in the wake of a disaster, or event comms for activities like city marathons.">
 Since the radio spectrum that ham operators use is a finite resource (in greater demand today), this raises a debate as to whether ham radio should be seen as a hobby or a public utility (see this [[blog/2019-09-07/monitoring_winlink_messages |previous post]]).((My personal opinion on this debate is that ham radio should be both a hobby and a public utility, but it should stay "open" in the sense that every transmission intercepted should be easily decodable.))