ORIGINAL: RCKen
ORIGINAL: SomePeopleHaveNoSenseOfHumor
.... The frequency clothes pin is going to quickly become an endangered species as people move to 2.4 GHz.....
I wouldn't go writing obituaries about 72 Mhz radios any time soon. Unless the FCC takes the 72 Mhz frequencies away from use I bet you dollars to donuts that there will still be people using it 20 years from now.
And my grandmother still watches a B&W TV with tubes! Sure, there'll still be people using 72 MHz twenty years from now just as there'll still be people listening to vinyl records, using film-based cameras, and using VHS VCRs. The rest of us will have moved on.
I like to move onto new technology as soon as it's available, which is why I watch Blu-Ray discs on a 1080p TV, use a 12 megapixel digital SLR, and have thrown away all my old ham radio gear.