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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
Electronic devices in the future?

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
Well, it may be, but it seems rather remote. In all probability, we shall have the factories, but the processes will be controlled electronically.

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
But I think it'll be a long time before we'll get away from people themselves.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Well, for that-- For that matter, how about radio down on the farm?

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
That is already in process of development, Mr. Davis. Very extraordinarily. There is a machine which right now will -- Can be placed on a field and will pick red tomatoes and disregard the green ones.

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
There's another machine that will thin out beets between plants, thinning only the green leaves in a certain area.

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
[[Laughing]]
There seems certain to be in that field, and I mean literally in that field, great development.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Well that's very interesting. I want to ask you about amateur radio. We know that you were a HAM in your day. Perhaps you still do operate an amateur station. Mr. Bailey, do you?

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
Oh yes, every day!

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Well that's marvelous. How many radio amateurs are there in the country now?

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
I suppose about 80,000 in this country, Mr. Davis. Probably 100,000 in the world.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
And a great many of the radio engineers of today got their start by being -- Working in amateur wireless, it used to be called years ago

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
Oh yes, and many of them today are still HAMs, as we call them. They say you scratch an engineer, you'll find a HAM underneath, as a radio amateur.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Yes, well that's very interesting. What about the possibility of just a person who wants to start in now?

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
I think it's been rather simplified, hasn't it, to get an amateur license? You don't have to learn quite so much code.

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
Yes, that's true. There is a novice class, which is good for a year, which you only have to know 5 words a minute. I'd recommend it for anyone, young or old, as a great hobby.

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
It's useful, too, as a good citizen.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
I think that's the American Radio Relay League at West Hartford, Connecticut.
{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
That is correct, I see you know already about that.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Well, I wanted to be a radio amateur, but I never had time when I was young.

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{SPEAKER name="George W. Bailey"}
Well, you've been a great help to us, Mr. Davis. In amateur radio.