Errrrrr
Being a ham radio operator myself (KC5MPK), this article, well mostly the comments, made my blood boil:“Hams Complain about Powerline Broadband”
People just don’t get what ham radio is about. Some of them take the same viewpoint we have, but point it at, oh I don’t know … say WiFi. They don’t understand that the hobby is just that, a hobby. It’s more than the simple concept of communicating across the airwaves or into other countries. They think that the Internet makes Hams obsolete. Think again. I read a comment somewhere in there that said that ham radio wasn’t needed in an emergency like it was before the Internet. Their reasoning? That the Internet was designed to withstand a nuclear attack. Are they nuts!?! Sure a few servers might survive, at least those that are properly protected, but what about the thousands and thousands of miles of cable and hundreds of routers, switches, firewalls, and computers. What is the Internet without those? Certainly not a technology capable of doing much after such an attack.
Errrr …. I’ve got to stop or I’ll hurt myself.