The January 2015 issue of Contact is out, and the “Last Word” column in that newsletter asks, “ARRL’s Centennial is now over. The candles have been blown out of the birthday cake, and now that the Centennial QSO Party is over, the bands seem awfully quiet in comparison. The inevitable question that hangs in the air is, ‘now what?'”
The answer, of course, is that now we’ve looked back and celebrated our past for the past year, it’s time to look forward. On the ARRL PR mailing list, Ward, N0AX, writes that we are “freed from having our story be about the past. Time to look to the future by talking up the forward-looking activities and technology!”
I couldn’t agree more. Personally, I plan to try a couple of new things this year, one of them being digital voice, and a group of local hams plans to play around with mesh networking. The past is a springboard for the future, and the key is to have fun with ham radio.
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