Re:Internet Not Killing Amateur Radio (Score 1)

Lack of innovation - There is plenty of innovation, just because it maybe doesn't relate to your interests in particular doesn't mean it's not there. Cost - I am a college student, and have a 1200W HF station. It's only expensive if you buy everything you use new. My xmitr and and rcvr were made in 1967, look like they just rolled off the assembly line, and perform well enough to have let me work all state, all continents, and about 180 countries with a random wire antenna, the ends of which hang down the inside of the pvc rain gutters on the side of dorm. You can do anything if you put your mind to it. If you're disinterested, perhaps its not something you should be doing. The thing that hurts the 'hobby' most, and any other hobby for that matter, is that people in general have become lazy and hypercritical. So common packet only runs at 9600 bps, how much do you need? If you need more, make it do more. The most significant aspects of radio and wire communications were all invented and developed by amateurs. People in laboratories working at 2 am on a saturday night on some interest they just couldn't escape. Too many people today are happy to sit on the couch and wait for the world to come up with the tools and the toys of their dreams. You're sposed to make your own dreams come true, not rely on someone else to do it for you.