If you are one of those technology enthusiasts like I am, you may watch or listen to This Week in Tech (TWiT). I was listening yesterday, March 27, 2011, when they had Bob Heil on as a special guest on one of their podcasts called Triangulation. They use his microphones on the TWiT podcasts so he appeared live yesterday. Once he was announced, the word got out to many hams and suddenly there were dozens of ham radio operators that showed up. The response was so overwhelming that Leo Laporte asked him to do a ham radio podcast and he agreed. This is great news because Leo Laporte’s shows are seen by hundreds of thousands of people weekly.
This is a rare opportunity to get the word out about ham radio. I am pretty excited about this. It is great when we have opportunities to show the world why ham radio is still relevant. I know in this day and age when Skype is available to call around the world it may seem that ham radio would be archaic and of no purpose. Those of us that use ham radio know the excitement of knowing that a signal jumping off one antenna and then landing on another antenna thousands of miles away is far more exciting. If you get a chance, go to TWiT and watch or listen to yesterday’s podcast that focussed on ham radio.
You will really enjoy it.
Paul, K5GLH
