I was recently trying hard to get a friend with a Collins KWM2A with its special portable briefcase to make it available for a photo op along side some other radios to show how far "ham" radio for portable use has come in the last 60+ years.
He decided to not take me up on the offer for fear that the fragility of the case and tubes would not be good for the cold weather, which I agree on.
And I thought all those boat anchors were rugged as heck?
Now the Icom IC-705 is as fancy as someone can get and show how modern "ham" radio is with its built in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, color touch screen and all the bands you need to communicate on in one package smaller than most deli sandwiches.
Bringing this up to help show that ham radio is alive and well and not full of old metal beasts or ancient history that seem to be more front and center in articles like this that spent WAY too much time focused on the past and not enough about the future, aside from its positive intent to make it more interesting to modern generations.
I was recently trying hard to get a friend with a Collins KWM2A with its special portable briefcase to make it available for a photo op along side some other radios to show how far "ham" radio for portable use has come in the last 60+ years.
He decided to not take me up on the offer for fear that the fragility of the case and tubes would not be good for the cold weather, which I agree on.
And I thought all those boat anchors were rugged as heck?
Now the Icom IC-705 is as fancy as someone can get and show how modern "ham" radio is with its built in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, color touch screen and all the bands you need to communicate on in one package smaller than most deli sandwiches.
Bringing this up to help show that ham radio is alive and well and not full of old metal beasts or ancient history that seem to be more front and center in articles like this that spent WAY too much time focused on the past and not enough about the future, aside from its positive intent to make it more interesting to modern generations.