A dual-lever paddle, like this one, let’s you send characters “iambically.”

Normally, when I post a video, I post several of them. This one, however, I think is important enough to post on its own. Kamal Singh (M0IOV) gave this presentation—The Future and Growth of Amateur Radio—at the RSGB Convention in October 2019. I’ve been meaning to post and comment on it ever since I found out about it several months ago.

At our last club meeting, I was discussing the changes to the Extra Class question pool with someone, and the topic of memorizing the answers popped up. As I always do, I mentioned that many of the questions you can only get right by memorizing the answer. At that point, someone down the way piped up. “Not me,” he said, “I studied the material so that I didn’t have to memorize the answers.”