Re: [IRCA] the magic ball

["Doug Pifer-desert4wd.com" <oregon4wd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like your comments Robbie. I'll go over your post again later cause I'm 
short of time at the moment. A parallel to the whole topic, I absurdedly was 
thinking of and as weird as it may be, was that of dragging a teen-ager or 
pre-teen through an antique shop. Sometimes they say "neat", but do they get 
it?   I've been DXing for a few years now and would like to continue for a 
long time, but I ponder the thought....What /  how many hobbies from 1900 
are still with us?
73- Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robbie j." <challenger82901@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:36 PM
Subject: [IRCA] the magic ball


> Hey All, Thanks for the views Les and Steve, they are
> very interesting but I hope wrong. I don`t see a lot
> of the talk shows going to fm as that will limit their
> reach too much. The growth of sat. radio as we all
> know has been somewhat less then expected. I think
> that people are right now tired of mindless chatter by
> mindless djs. This will just farther erode fm into
> something else.(what I don`t know) Although most
> people now don`t really know or care where their
> "radio station" truly comes from.(on fm) Am has been
> losing market share for many years. But as one RCA
> eng. once sead "the static,like the poor, will be with
> us always!" I hope that is true(the static, not the
> poor) and for the foreseeable future it will be. I
> don`t think that dx is going away anytime soon.(at
> least I hope not) I also think that those that listion
> to the more "out there" shows like coast to coast and
> the like will keep them on am. I, to, also see more ip
> based "broadcasting" and file sharing of all kinds. I
> don`t want to peek too far into the future at this
> point. But "the times, they are a change`n" as the
> song sead. I left the broadcast industry years ago.(my
> dad is still in it) I think(and hope) that am and fm
> will be around for some time to come. I don`t like to
> "predict" the future too much as you know what
> happened with fm don`t you? They sead it wasn`t going
> to happen and RCA tryed to make this so, but in the
> end it came to pass in some form or fashin anyhow.
> Good dx(and holidays) to all, de kd7cjo in dn 51

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