Hi, I think it is because of a lack of awareness.  People think why go
with radio communications now when I have the Internet that can do the
exact same thing without all of the learning involved, but they are
missing out on a lot of aspects they wouldn't get with the Internet, but
would with ham radio.  What do you all think?  I think that one reason why
they reduced the code requirements was so that they could keep ham radio a
live and to  get more interested.  I think that  there are lot of people
out there who wouldn't get into ham radio because of the  code
requirements, and my understanding is that in some countries code is
pretty much  done away altogether.  For example, in Afghanistan I have
heard you can get a ticket for next to nothing.





On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, chuck lunkley wrote:

> Fellow hams,
>
>      Do you think that the reason for the lack of activity on some of the
> ham bands is related to the popularity of computer technology?
>