How Can We Keep Ham Radio Relevent

I was asked to host a Hack-Chat for hackaday.com and many interesting questions and points were made on how to keep the interest alive in ham radio and bring new people into the hobby. I'm going to recap my favorite comments and add my opinion on keeping "The worlds best hobby" alive. Transcripts from the chat are here: https://hackaday.io/event/169574/logs?sort=oldest Check out Dustin's blog here: https://www.radiosoth.org/2019/04/2019-state-of-hobby-results.html Last Man Standing Set Activation! 02/11 Fox & Hound FT8 7.082, 14.078 Load up those frequencies now! Monthly newsletter, stickers, private content: https://www.patreon.com/hoshnasi Links to products in the video: https://www.amazon.com/shop/hamradiocrashcourse As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Current Shack Config: ICOM 7300: https://amzn.to/2sVdpOq ICOM 2730a: https://amzn.to/2JqrASg MFJ-4230DMP: http://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-4230DMP G5RV: https://amzn.to/2KfETGv Souncloud................► https://soundcloud.com/hoshnasi Discord.....................► https://discord.gg/xhJMxDT Facebook.................►https://goo.gl/cv5rEQ Twitter......................► https://twitter.com/Hoshnasi Instagram.................► https://instagram.com/hoshnasi SnapChat..................► @Hoshnasi Companies can send demo products to: Josh Nass P.O Box 5101 Cerritos, Ca. 90703-5101