Change has pulls and tugs toward the past and forward into the future We hear the word culture bandied about all the time. It means different things to different people. Social scientists define it as follows: Culture includes the shared belief systems, rituals, and conversational styles of small groups, as well as societally pervasive ways […]
Is amateur radio in the United States dying? The short answer is NO. But it is CHANGING. Here is why and how. Author’s note: Several months ago, I was contacted by a corporate sales broker to prepare a brief assessment of the ham radio market. This article is a version of that work. It is […]
Results from the RAC Survey 2021 and Statistics Canada One of the pressing issues facing all amateur radio organizations in the modern world is what appears to be a rapidly aging set of participants. We mostly base this belief on various observations at in-person amateur radio activities since licensing bodies rarely ever collect or release […]
As a small child, my grandmother and mother both watched several “soap operas,” including the Secret Storm. The opening of Secret Storm showed violent waves crashing on the shoals, something I’d never seen being raised in Middle Georgia. My grandmother especially used to flinch and react to the plot-line drama there, something that I took […]