Comment by pavel_lishin
8 years ago
I think I can understand part of the reason why - it's kind of a gatekeeping device. You're guaranteed to meet someone who at least has one interest similar to yours, and someone who's gone through the trouble of getting a license and a radio. It's not like going to ChatRoulette and clicking around until you get tired of seeing genitals.
For (practically) any given interest, there's a way to find someone else with the same interest somewhere else that you can ask to Skype with.
Sure, but that's not as fun as the, uh, "organic" connection you can make over radio.
He's wrong. You don't need to use the internet to talk to someone from Australia. Using HF radio you can talk all over the world just using the Earth's ionosphere.
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