What I found the biggest turn of in Ham, versus the communication medium I choose at the time, was the fact that everything was already close to perfect and peo

What I found the biggest turn of in Ham, versus the communication medium I choose at the time, was the fact that everything was already close to perfect and people in the community knew close to everything and where very conservative. "The internet" (datanet 1 in my case, growing up in Holland) was a complete different beast: everyone was scrambling to figure stuff out, there where no limits, no hierarchy, no unwritten rules, just an endless space to figure out and to share experiences and hypotheses. Never lost interest in the airwaves since they are my first love, but never spend more then some after-hours on it. The ham people I've met over the years that I found to do interesting stuff, seem to border legal experiments (with a new found interest for pretty powerful (mobile) shortwave radios since recently).