In my opinion this is: 1) extremely likely to happen and 2) extremely avoidable. Right now there's no new blood replacing existing hams. The type of person who is into RF is also likely to be tech savvy these days. There are cool things you can do in ham with computers (ax.25, psk) but I've seen a lot of "that's boring come learn code to talk to people on field day" push back in most clubs.
It is very sad. I have a feeling a new wave of hackers would flood radio if the community pushed for some spectrum to be community dedicated to digital comms.
Outreach would be much easier.
I've actually seen hams go on a >20 minute rant about how digital is ruining ham radio.
It is very sad. I have a feeling a new wave of hackers would flood radio if the community pushed for some spectrum to be community dedicated to digital comms.
Outreach would be much easier.
I've actually seen hams go on a >20 minute rant about how digital is ruining ham radio.