You’re not wrong. The space for ham enthusiasm has been greatly diminished by the internet. Since its inception in the 1910s until maybe the 80s or even 90s, sa

You’re not wrong. The space for ham enthusiasm has been greatly diminished by the internet. Since its inception in the 1910s until maybe the 80s or even 90s, saying “I contacted a dude in Thailand and another in Poland last night from my shack in Nebraska” would have been such a flex! It would have attracted the interest of many nerds and engineering/science minded folks. Now a days it wouldn’t even make any sense to announce or mention that. You’ll have to qualify it with a lot of “oh but I didn’t use the internet, or any infrastructure. In fact I can do this with nothing more than a battery and my radio. Isn’t that cool?” And it’s cool, in a way, but only to those who are really care about the specifics.