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It is still around , as a hobby . You would be surprised how many people enjoy working with electronics and communications . I don't know how you could say obsolete , when hams are doing things currently like talking to astronauts in orbit or communication by bouncing signals off the moon . They were using video conferencing long before the public received it . Many people still enjoy talking to people in far away lands . Heck , even the Russians and Chinese have ham operators . There are many companies from around the world producing some fine equipment . Yet there are still people capable of assembling or even making their own computer and radios from scratch .

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