When I was kid, there was a section in one of my radio magazines with wireless in the title. It was about radio nostalgia. I never read this section because I didn't even understand what radio nostalgia was.
25 years later something occurs to me: Wireless was the nostalgic word for radio. Now radio is the nostalgic word for wireless.
Just saying "wireless" when I was kid made me think of people born around the turn of the last century chatting 80 meters or helping me fix my radio while completely following a conversation in Morse code in the background.
I'll always think of RF as "radio".
In 2005, a colleague told me "wireless" was becoming the new word for it. I thought there could never be anything modern about calling radio "wireless". But here I am posting in a "wireless" forum, and it's not about the 1930s.
We are pretty close to being ready for a blog or column along the lines "remember the good old days when 800MHz wireless was new technology and back then we called wireless radio".
I am 37 years of age and think of myself as young. I was talking to someone at a local business owner's group last week about hiring and motivating engineers. He said, "One thing about my generation..." Hmmm... I had fancied we were sort-of of the same generation since I would have had to have a baby in high-school to have a child his age, but I guess it's fair for a Gen Y member to say to a Gen Xer.
So I say, "One thing about my generation, we call RF radio."
