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--- blog:2020-07-12:the_uncertain_future_of_ham_radio [2020/08/07 13:03] – external edit 127.0.0.1
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-> "<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.">
+<QUOTE>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.</QUOTE>
 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.))
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 On the bright side, cheap Chinese radios and SDRs are lowering the bar of entry for new hams in terms of cost, but even that can be a contentious issue.
-> "<As Michel, the former ARRL CEO, puts it: `Every ham has [their] own perspective. What we’ve learned over the hundred-plus years is that there will always be these battles -- AM modulation versus single-sideband modulation, whatever it may be. The technology evolves. And the marketplace will follow where the interests lie.'">
+<QUOTE>As Michel, the former ARRL CEO, puts it: `Every ham has [their] own perspective. What we’ve learned over the hundred-plus years is that there will always be these battles -- AM modulation versus single-sideband modulation, whatever it may be. The technology evolves. And the marketplace will follow where the interests lie.</QUOTE>