10-4 good buddy to ham radio?

On this morning’s Ellen show she was going through a list of items in our lives that are dissappearing like land lines, yellow pages, stand alone bowling alleys, personal checks, cameras that use film, milkman, drive in theaters on the list of “25 things that are vanishing in America” (but not litter, low rise jeans, and ?).

And ham radio is on the list!

“You can say 10-4 good buddy to ham radios! No more of those.”- Ellen

Ham Radio

“Amateur radio operators enjoy personal (and often worldwide) wireless communications with each other and are able to support their communities with emergency and disaster communications if necessary, while increasing their personal knowledge of electronics and radio theory. However, proliferation of the Internet and its popularity among youth has caused the decline of amateur radio. In the past five years alone, the number of people holding active ham radio licenses has dropped by 50,000, even though Morse Code is no longer a requirement.”

Agree?  Disagree?  Comment below.

source: Ellen Show and

http://www.walletpop.com/specials/top-25-things-vanishing-from-america