Do we really talk to each other on the radio anymore? As in having real conversations with our fellow hams? Making friends over the airwaves? Ragchewing? Or have our frenetic lifestyles made the art of conversation a luxury of time that we don’t think we can afford?
This magazine’s subtitle is “Communications and Technology.” We sometimes fall into the trap of focusing on the technology part of that phrase to the exclusion of the communications part. But the technology exists primarily to allow us to communicate. And if we aren’t communicating, are we getting all we should be out of our hobby?
Several things got me thinking about this topic and before I say anything else, I confess to being as