Arguments to be used with people who dont understand why people still use amateur-radio in the internet and cellphone age - In this thread i want to change the usual way how we respond to those kind of sceptics. - Amongst the first answers we give to them is always that wait for a catastrophy and then you know -element. As true that may be in some places more than in others... ...skeptics dont bite that, they know as much as we do - that those cases are few and rare, and what we do daily is something else. So lets find answers that appeal to THEIR LOGIC .. not to ours. --------- 1) i reach places where internet and sms does not exist - skippers out on sea - polar stations - islands too far off to receive broadband - australian outback - 3rd world countries with bad infrastructure - airplanes - space stations 2) our groundwork is what enabled manufacturers to build your WLAN hub, and your cellphone equippment. -today there are countless radioamateurs sitting in the Space agencies, and research and development facilities and hardware design labs in every single cell phone & wireless devices company around the planet. Nokia, Motorola, Apple, Samsung.. you name it. 3) experience shows that accessing members of our community through radio builds bridges and friends in far away places much better than attempting the same through social media. 4) the sports aspect and the feeling of having achieved something does not come from a skype-connection. But when you have build a proper antenna, gained the skill to bounce your signals from the ionosphere, moon or amateur-sattelite to another continent and manage to make contact to your friend on the other side of the planet w/o beeng dependant on the mercy of your internet service provider then that is a whole different form of satisfactory feeling... 5) nowadays we have our PCs attached to the radios, or the PC becomes the radio (SDR) and we develop and use modern and very efficient TEXT-CHAT operating modes (dont bore a non ham with gibberish like psk31) 6) we can poll emails and news from the internet, via amateur radio when we are out of cell phone and wireless-internet range by use of ham-radio internet gatways systems. (jPSKMAIL i.e.) ----- just a few examples, dont put the emergency-work too much in the foreground as important that may be to YOU.. it is irrelevant to the sceptics, you will only bore them to death with it, and that doesnt help your/our cause. Find different arguments... Stage is yours...
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 08:56:40 +0000
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