Ham Radio: Analog Persists in a Digital World
Posted on February 7th, 2011 by GD
“Somehow it makes little sense that amateur ‘ham’ radio continues to thrive in the age of Twitter, Facebook, and iPhones,” writes David Rowan of Wired UK.
More than 700,000 people in the United States alone sit before whistling static-filled radios, homing in on friends, strangers, and the occasional royal, according to Rowan.
Their communication is based on codes of numbers, letters, and etiquette; and it includes exchanges of (paper) postcards between ham radio operators.
Wired provides a how-to page to help aspiring U.S. ham radio communicators get started.
