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    Amateur radio broadened Raleigh’s horizons

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    ome ways the Internet of its day, amateur radio allowed communications across miles and across oceans, with “high school ‘kids’ and ordinary clerks being on the same footing with adults and professional men.” In 1938, N&O readers learned of ham radio communications being established locally.
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    Gas generators in tobacco barns? Flies around hams?

    Sounds like Raleigh today...

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    The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry



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    Mostly flies around gas generators.
    "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
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    Ham radio has broadened a lot of bottoms, too.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    Ham radio has broadened a lot of bottoms, too.
    An event horizon, you could say.
    Jim
    The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry



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