Until this article, I thought that Gen X killed ham radio. > Amateur radio is to The Baby Boomer and Generation X’s youth as IOT is to Millennials and Gen Y.

Until this article, I thought that Gen X killed ham radio. > Amateur radio is to The Baby Boomer and Generation X’s youth as IOT is to Millennials and Gen Y. To clarify my bona fides, I'm solidly GenX. I didn't know any hams my age growing up. I was active with math-y and computer-y activities (MAΘ, programming competitions, science bowl, math camp) - many of the same places where IOT would be popular now, I presume - and ham radio never came up. My dad and grandfather were hams and my dad was a professional radio engineer. They both helped in the ham response to Hurricane David in the Dominican Republic. (We lived in FL. My g'pa lived in the D.R. for a while, and was one of the first licensed hams there.) So I have an idea of what ham could do. I didn't become a ham myself, even though I had hand-me-down equipment I could use. I did listen to the hams, and wasn't interested in joining in. It certainly wasn't enough to interest me in learning Morse - this was back when code was still a requirement. I had a Heathkit H-151 PC-compatible computer, which I soldered myself. I would go to Heathkit computer meetings. Certainly the store sold ham gear, but again, never met anyone my age interested in it. Hence why I concluded that Gen X killed ham.