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  1. Mark Lassman
    Mark Lassman says:

    What do they think will happen when the cell phones towers get knocked out
    of service by the killer quake? They think their phones will work all by
    themselves? Our radios… on the other hand… WILL. If the repeaters all
    go down, and they likely will, a lot of them, the individual radios will
    ALWAYS work.

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  2. silverdrumvideo
    silverdrumvideo says:

    I do hope that you at least explained to all of these kids that emergency
    communications is not the only thing that you can do in ham radio. There
    are a lot of other aspects to it; not just emergencies. Ham radio operators
    (specifically those here in the US) have access to at least 27 different
    amateur radio bands in the RF spectrum. We can also operate in different
    modes (voice, data, television, VoIP, Morse code, moonbounce, ham radio
    satellites, for example).

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  3. silverdrumvideo
    silverdrumvideo says:

    We don’t just exist for emergencies only. Some of us simply like to just
    chat with our friends on the bands. Some like to do ham radio contests on
    the weekends (not me, I’m not really into that sort of thing personally).

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  4. Mark Lassman
    Mark Lassman says:

    I blame MTV, Nintendo, Sony and all of the video game manufacturers… Why
    talk on the radio to someone you don’t know when you can play “Halo” on
    your 50″ flat-screen TV with surround sound. I look at these kids (and
    people in their 20s, 30s, etc., staring at their stupid phones all the
    time… they know all about the latest video games but not a whole lot
    about the real world. When a real disaster hits, and it will, eventually,
    they’ll be unprepared.

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  5. Hooch
    Hooch says:

    Depressing but not unexpected – just go to any Ham radio store, fleamarket,
    rally or most Ham related videos on Youtube – what do you see ? – usually a
    bunch of obese old men drooling over their equipment and bitching about any
    other hams who don’t agree with them on something or other. Yeah – that
    really sets an example and role model that young people want to follow.

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  6. silverdrumvideo
    silverdrumvideo says:

    Those of you reading this who are not ham radio operators: imagine yourself
    being able to communicate with someone via radio (either on the other side
    of town or around the world), without having to rely on any infrastructure,
    and using less power than it takes to illuminate a light bulb… FOR FREE.
    No charge to use the airwaves. Just you, your radio, and the ionosphere.
    That’s it. So please, get licensed and join in. There is no age
    requirement; just a simple licensing exam. OK, I’m done. 🙂

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  7. Mark Lassman
    Mark Lassman says:

    Not surprising at all. Hard to get these kids away from their video games
    and Facebook… most of these kids hardly ever put down their game
    controllers.

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  8. ThePauperPrepper
    ThePauperPrepper says:

    Well done. I hope this gets some publicity. It really is rather depressing
    that todays youth have no knowledge of Amateur Radio (based on this video,
    of course this was a very small sampling but I would be willing to say that
    this would probably be the norm on a larger scale) Keep up the good work
    Ron KB3VEW

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  9. u3of52
    u3of52 says:

    You can help in emergencies, but there is a lot of fun things to do in Ham
    Radio. Like, just talking to other (hams / amateur) operators, talk to
    other places around the world, do digital communications, radio contest,
    take a hand-held radio and talk to other geocaching hams … Etc.

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  10. D4iZxBeatboxz
    D4iZxBeatboxz says:

    Kb6kgx yeh as a teenager I know it’s hard to stop playing on facebook and
    games but yeh I love ham radio a whole lot more than that crap but yeh wish
    all kids think the same way

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