I surprised my first exchange student with the statement "There's nothing to watch" when we had Cable and about 30 channels. It's worse with satellite TV and over 200 channels.
Another blogger commented that there are too many ham radio Youtube stars.
We have YouTube, Roku, and one can even stream video thought and mayhem on Facebook and Twitter.
Want to start your own blog? Blogspot and Wordpress started the trend. There's even more now.
Can you remember when there was ONE community repeater? When it went down, you talked on the simplex output with a two-channel crystal-controlled radio.
Now we have three hotspots ... and four repeaters in a county. One net on one repeater. Another is host to an Allstar hotspot, nets, and programming. Yet another is host to five repeaters, three hotspots, and simplex operation on a non-standard channel. None are all busy all the time.
As one writer wrote, "Echolink ... bringing life to dead repeaters worldwide" ... except on some repeaters on Echolink the life seems to be endless Kerchunks.
The pot calling the kettle black brought Sunflower to Kansas. The thought was to have a watering hole on digital voice so one does not have to buy multiple radios and multiple hotspots. Rather tune your one radio and hotspot to a bridge that has multiple outputs for your radio activity.
So far, the activity has been Kerchunks ... but it's new. Give it a try.
Some people miss the old crystal control Motrac in the trunk with 146.16-76 and 146.76 simplex crystals. At least there was someone listening to it.
QRZ? This is KC5FM listening.
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