Comments on: CW & Contesting: Ham Radio is Alive! http://www.n0hr.com/hamradio_blog/2009/04/16/cw-contesting-ham-radio-is-alive/ Ham radio towers, software, coax, DXing, contesting, and life in general Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:52:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kevin K0DSM http://www.n0hr.com/hamradio_blog/2009/04/16/cw-contesting-ham-radio-is-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-33015 Kevin K0DSM Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:04:09 +0000 http://www.n0hr.com/hamradio_blog/2009/04/16/cw-contesting-ham-radio-is-alive/#comment-33015 Ham radio is certainly not dead and people that keep saying "use it or lose it" are just dead wrong. We are a long ways away from having our bands taken away from us and then auctioned off by the FCC. I wish I could find where I read it, but in some newsletter I read that a huge chunk of new hams that just got their technician ticket have upgraded. It's a silly misperception that a bunch of people have that these "no-code hams" are just here to get their tech ticket and won't even bother to upgrade because they're too "lazy." In reality, the FCC hasn't seen such a large percentage of tech-class hams upgrade to higher license classes in its history. Ham radio is certainly not dead and people that keep saying “use it or lose it” are just dead wrong. We are a long ways away from having our bands taken away from us and then auctioned off by the FCC.

I wish I could find where I read it, but in some newsletter I read that a huge chunk of new hams that just got their technician ticket have upgraded. It’s a silly misperception that a bunch of people have that these “no-code hams” are just here to get their tech ticket and won’t even bother to upgrade because they’re too “lazy.” In reality, the FCC hasn’t seen such a large percentage of tech-class hams upgrade to higher license classes in its history.

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