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Where Will Ham Radio Be In 50 Years?
Eham ^ | 2/24/07 | KF4HR

Posted on 03/02/2007 8:07:51 PM PST by vintage patriot

Where Will Ham Radio Be in 50 Years? What will it be like? Or will it even exist?


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Thanks to all those 'ham freepers' and 'non ham freepers' who replied to the 'Its Taps For Morse Code' thread. It was alot fun reading it, I learned alot. Now, what will ham radio be like in 50 years? Will a ham radio be built in to our high tech TV? QSO with pix while we talk? By then CW will be used only for 10 minute ID's on a loop? Hope to hear from you again!

:^)

1 posted on 03/02/2007 8:07:53 PM PST by vintage patriot
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Will a ham radio be built in to our high tech TV?

A small chip will be implanted directly into your brain. You won't even need head phones to listen to the radio.

2 posted on 03/02/2007 8:09:27 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: BurbankKarl

Ping!


3 posted on 03/02/2007 8:10:21 PM PST by bd476
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To: vintage patriot

I am not a HAM operator but it will still be around because it is a proven way to communicate that does not use VOIP or GPS.


4 posted on 03/02/2007 8:10:55 PM PST by lndrvr1972
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To: vintage patriot
It will be integrated with the chip inside your head.

No, I'm not happy about that and I hope I die before it happens.

5 posted on 03/02/2007 8:11:55 PM PST by LibKill (ENOUGH! Take the warning labels off everything and let Saint Darwin do his job.)
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Now, what will ham radio be like in 50 years?

IMHO? Dead. There will be no need for amateur radio. We are getting there pretty fast already. 50 years? Not a chance it will survive.

6 posted on 03/02/2007 8:13:16 PM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior and Founding Member of Darwin Central)
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To: vintage patriot

When I first started looking into ham radio, SSTV was cutting-edge. If you couldn't suss out analog schematics and do a fair job of soldering, forget it.

If the amateur bands survive at all, I assume they will be packet-switched. Any sort of IP gateway can link the short-wave IP world to the rest of us in comfy chairs with fast links.


7 posted on 03/02/2007 8:15:16 PM PST by ReignOfError (`)
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To: vintage patriot

It will not exist, everybody will have implants that cover all of the earth with full sound, video, location and all prior history at their command!


8 posted on 03/02/2007 8:15:39 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Vote for RINOS, lose and complain by sending a self-abused stomped elephant.)
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I wonder how many Hams still use vacuum tube sets. I know it was quite a number back in the 80's. Tubes are less susceptible to EMP.


9 posted on 03/02/2007 8:23:33 PM PST by magslinger (Ask Dad. He'll know. And on the off chance he doesn't, he'll make up something good.)
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To: vintage patriot

I was going to calculate the odds on my slide rule, but the battery was dead.


10 posted on 03/02/2007 8:44:18 PM PST by chopperman
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There will be a tiny group that will hide from their masters.
They will have a barter culture as all finances can only be done through an implant.
They will be reviled as they will not be PC!
It will be closer than 50 years.


11 posted on 03/02/2007 8:50:22 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Vote for RINOS, lose and complain by sending a self-abused stomped elephant.)
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Quatrain of Nostradamus?
12 posted on 03/02/2007 8:53:55 PM PST by somemoreequalthanothers (All for the betterment of "the state", comrade)
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To: lndrvr1972

Well, since hams use satellites also for operating, maybe that will help keep it going...?

"I am not a HAM operator but it will still be around because it is a proven way to communicate that does not use VOIP or GPS."


13 posted on 03/02/2007 9:20:58 PM PST by vintage patriot
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To: ReignOfError

I heard somewhere on 440, repeaters are being used with computer access to get all around the world. I think there's a monthly service fee


14 posted on 03/02/2007 9:24:08 PM PST by vintage patriot
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Quite a number do, I can vouch that there are plenty of tube rigs on CW. Also have a few 'tube' shortwave radios

"I wonder how many Hams still use vacuum tube sets. I know it was quite a number back in the 80's. Tubes are less susceptible to EMP."


15 posted on 03/02/2007 9:26:41 PM PST by vintage patriot
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In 50 years we will be so "wired" by glass, HAM will be a dead tech. HAM is already dying. Look at the increase of the average age of the HAM radio operators. The always gets thru willl be a thing of the past as well. Satcom and glass will ensure this far better than a CW rig.


16 posted on 03/02/2007 9:58:05 PM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior and Founding Member of Darwin Central)
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To: vintage patriot

That is an echolink repeater. It is free, but you have to have the equipment and broadband....and a ham license.


17 posted on 03/02/2007 10:37:46 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: vintage patriot

That is an echolink repeater. It is free, but you have to have the equipment and broadband....and a ham license.


18 posted on 03/02/2007 10:37:50 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: RadioAstronomer

unless some IT geek sets all the sends to 5 MHZ when the users are set at 3 MHZ.


19 posted on 03/02/2007 10:58:50 PM PST by Not now, Not ever! (The devil made me do it!,.......................................................( well, not really.)
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To: Not now, Not ever!

LOL! :-)

(BTW, in 50 years - we will be talking Petabits/sec - possibly even Exobits)


20 posted on 03/02/2007 11:09:01 PM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior and Founding Member of Darwin Central)
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