"Back in my day, Radios came with a CW key and a frequency knob, and that was all we needed." -Every Old Ham CurmudgeonOK, that\'s probably a slight exaggeration, but Radios were a lot simpler in the "distant" past, when everything was station-to-station, and most communications were some flavor of HF.
Nowadays, we have HF, VHF, UHF, digital modes, CW/SSB/AM/FM/MW, repeaters with offsets, repeaters with tones, User IDs, reflectors, talk groups, and who-knows-what coming down the road for next. "Back in my day, Radios came with a CW key and a frequency knob, and that was all we needed." -Every Old Ham CurmudgeonOK, that\'s probably a slight exaggeration, but Radios were a lot simpler in the "distant" past, when everything was station-to-station, and most communications were some flavor of HF
