I was like ooh, what is going to be new with Ham radios, so I was disappointed. Then the music kicked in and I was like, well, the ham must get cut up and smashed in the escalator. Obviously this did not happen, so I was again disappointed.

However, I shall still up-vote even though I was fooled twice, simply because it is rare that I get fooled twice in a single video.

1 Teach them how to read electronics schematics
2 Make them take piano lessons
3 Begin instruction NOW in preferred dialect of Hànyǔ
(Mandarin)

They will become the geeks without having to even try

oh, HAM radio is cool, get em interested in short wave!! Wish my dad had....and for that matter wish my dad would have invested in fed ex, microsoft, and ...now I'm sad!!

Voted yes... but thought it read "troll" not "poll" -siftquisition bad, very bad-I would suggest bi-passing the siftquisition altogether in a form and fashion worthy of infamy. Someone already broke as many rules in as short a period of time as possible, using their mouse like a ham radio operator reporting the upheaval of continents to a world suddenly without satellites after a direct hit from a mass coronal ejection the size of Russia....Seems like all the others were kinna whiny in comparison.

Since I have a charter now (thanks, dag and viddy-watchers), would I be able to get my next one in whatever colors and text formats I wanted??

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NMTS system that was widely used before GSM, at least across Europe, in the early 90's wasn't even coded so you could eavesdrop any phone in the vicinity (say 500m) with a standard Motorola radio or any other ham radio (freq. was in the 420-450 MHz range). you could also catch standard land line phone sets with a remote receiver unit (that was usualy in the kilo hertz range)

ham radio operators, qm

> I enjoyed the movie, until the moronic ending

Yes, it is ridiculously implausible that the USA government would act to deceive the public. Now, as to why she didn't ditch the retarded Palmer Joss, I believe she thought she could change him... or it was the sex.. I recall that Ellie had only one boyfriend before her stint at Arecibo, it was Lester Sikes who was a nerdy ham radio operator from several counties away. Compare with Matthew McConaughey who is quite fit and probably didn't even know what a morse code sex chat room is. Ellie felt guilty for years of tapping her buzzer, Joss forgave her for her sins.

choggie - I understand that a lot of it has and will remain classified, but there are a set of facts and beliefs that people interested in investigating 9/11 do generally believe on - for instance, the speed of the towers' falls and the composition of the towers. People even now have, at their hands, the blueprints to the North Tower. It isn't much, but it is information that we can organize and test, as scientists(not politicians - scientists test physical theories against facts produced by experimentation. Politicians deal with policy, and the enforcement of such policy.).

Rick - As for New Tribalism - as Daniel Quinn says, it doesn't need to completely reject technology, nor does it in most cases. Authors like William Gibson and Neal Stephenson have written quite a lot of interesting works of fiction describing what amounts to technological "tribes." An author by the name of Bruce Sterling wrote an excellent non-fiction book, The Hacker Crackdown, that actually partially detailed the formation and organization of technological, hacker tribes - some of which still exist today.

It's funny, actually - a lot of the people involved in the hacker community are very technical in nature, and choose to be involved in the community - but some people go the extra step and form the technologically based tribes that many often do not see as being possible to exist. The Ham Radio community/tribe has existed like this for decades. They call themselves a "community," but I refer to them as a "tribe" because every person involved with Ham Radio, at least in the United States, knows the basics of how radio works - even those who merely oversee policy and governance - and some get very specific with it's operation, even going so far as to set up GPRS repeater nets, and even Internet access over radio. It reminds me of Daniel Quinn's use of a circus as a good(maybe better) modern analog for a tribe.

Rick - I guess my thing is, I hate specifically labeling some things - if there is an organization that teaches new tribalism in the sense of it being strictly organic and non-technological, well to me, it ignores what we, as humans, are - we, at the very least, are innovative creatures - I think the radicalism of New Tribalism being contrary to strains like economic globalism, net connectivity - even military industrialism - can be resolved, or even have a place in a form of tribalism.

yeah gettin' sick of the geek label, m'self....true geeks, are filthy, insect-like..like a bile duct researcher, or a penciled-pocketed HAM radio operator....y'know social throwbacks-revision is in order!

Thats where HAM Radio gets its name from. Ham Fisted operators.