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Power Line Named Blog of the Year, and Ham Radio is an embarrassing hobby.
Time.com ^

Posted on 12/29/2004 8:46:24 AM PST by entreri

Power Line Named Blog of the Year: TIME also names Power Line its Blog of the Year. “Before this year, blogs were a curiosity, a cult phenomenon, a faintly embarrassing hobby on the order of ham radio and stamp collecting. But in 2004, blogs unexpectedly vaulted into the pantheon of major media, alongside TV, radio and, yes, magazines, and it was Power Line, more than any other blog, that got them there,” writes TIME’s Lev Grossman.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Technical
KEYWORDS: 2004review; manoftheyear; powerline; weblogs
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To: entreri

I loved getting QSL cards from pirate radio stations in the 90's. Hope Radio, RFM, Voice of Layrngitis, etc., it was always a surprise to have my Grundig signed on to 715.15, and while doing homework, hear a mysterious, illegal voice spring out of the static wilderness.

"This is Hope Radio."


41 posted on 12/29/2004 9:39:43 AM PST by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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To: joesnuffy

Do they still have the 5WPM code requirement?


42 posted on 12/29/2004 9:44:40 AM PST by ProudVet77 (MERRY CHRISTMAS, damn it!)
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To: entreri

Me too.

Nothing to be embarassed about.

As a matter of fact I'm PROUD to be a HAM!!

Kb2zlz


43 posted on 12/29/2004 9:48:22 AM PST by Bigh4u2
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To: entreri

I take exception to that as well. I've been involved with radio for many years and will be taking the test soon. Better people in Ham than most hobbies.


44 posted on 12/29/2004 9:50:18 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (All I ask from livin' is to have no chains on me. All I ask from dyin' is to go naturally.)
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To: petro45acp

You forgot about AMSAT and SSTV long before the networks decided to launch the first TELSAT into space.


45 posted on 12/29/2004 9:53:16 AM PST by Bigh4u2
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To: entreri

"LICENCEC"

Man, that's a series missspelling.


46 posted on 12/29/2004 9:55:18 AM PST by shellshocked
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To: entreri
What the hell is so embarassing about Ham Radio?

I've been one for 15 years, and I can think of few other hobbies that perform as critical a service as we do.

Geez...
47 posted on 12/29/2004 9:55:52 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Oh yeah - and F the french too!)
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To: entreri

Sheesh, this "hobby" has been useful to me over the years. On the air since Sept. '63. Yes, TIME is in the rack next to WEEKLY WORLD NEWS!


48 posted on 12/29/2004 9:58:46 AM PST by Blue_Spark (Keeper of N7DB/b CN85)
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To: entreri

Oh, I almost forgot - currently listening 28.400 USB and the band is open ...


49 posted on 12/29/2004 10:00:12 AM PST by _Jim ( <--- Ann C. and Rush L. speak on gutless Liberals (RealAudio files))
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To: Art Bell
a faintly embarrassing hobby on the order of ham radio and stamp collecting

Check this out ping

50 posted on 12/29/2004 10:22:34 AM PST by lonevoice (Vast Right Wing Pajama Party)
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To: entreri

Yet another reason why Time Magazine sucks.

Just donated my old Yaesu FT-101E to the local club here before I move next week, in fact. They get a servicable near-indestructible boat-anchor radio, and I don't have to lug it up to Virginia...seems like a fair trade. :)

73 de KS4RY (ham since 1992)

}:-)4


51 posted on 12/29/2004 11:04:22 AM PST by Moose4 (I'm patriotic--just a white guy in a blue county in a red state.)
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To: Bigh4u2

"You forgot about AMSAT and SSTV long before the networks decided to launch the first TELSAT into space. "

I certainly did! Embarassing hobby indeed!

Stoooooopid times!

Top sends


52 posted on 12/29/2004 12:19:45 PM PST by petro45acp ("Democrat = socialist. Remember it, repeat it, say it loudly, and VOTE!")
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To: entreri
Northeast liberal elistists at Time Magazine strike again.

They just don't understand why their subsciptions are falling.

53 posted on 12/29/2004 12:24:23 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Crush your enemies; see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women - Conan)
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To: entreri
I'm a No-code tech who has lots of respect for those generals and extras.

The hobby is embarrassing because, many of the participants are accomplished in technical fields, tend to be somewhat conservative politically, and it requires some intelligence.

KD5AIU
54 posted on 12/29/2004 1:38:07 PM PST by TLOne (All the terrorists want is for us to bow and worship their god. Oh, and let them rule.)
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To: entreri; All

For that matter, there's nothing wrong with stamp-collecting, either!


55 posted on 12/29/2004 1:45:35 PM PST by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: handy old one

I had a SSB CB in my Minnesota car about 15 years ago. I regularly chated with a guy in Toronto on my way to work. It worked especially well on cloudy days.


56 posted on 12/29/2004 2:06:54 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: entreri

A hurricane ripped through the northern part of NC and worked itself upwards. My best friend is a ham and she and many other hams went to local shelters to set up emergency communications. Electricity went out, land lines were down, and cellphones were useless. Good thing there were a lot of people around here with such a "shameful hobby."


57 posted on 12/29/2004 5:18:18 PM PST by zx2dragon (Noah's Ark is a problem ... We'll have to call it early quantum state phenomenon...)
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To: entreri
Out of curiosity. Why use a HAM radio in this day and time, when all the HAM users can simply start an IRC channel or something? Or use FR lol.
58 posted on 12/29/2004 5:19:50 PM PST by KoRn
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To: entreri

I am a licensed amateur, and I don't collect stamps, anymore.


59 posted on 12/29/2004 5:21:28 PM PST by RightWhale (Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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To: joesnuffy
Really?! I am also a Ham wannabe but I have not even got to the license phase yet. I don't know what to do..I am surrounded by these nay sayers that say, "You don't dare have a ham radio because it will interfere with all your neighbors' TVs." And the one I love, "Why don't you just use a cell phone?" I live in a condo situation and I don't want a mutiny or anything.
60 posted on 12/29/2004 5:36:19 PM PST by A knight without armor
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