[KB0YOJ]

I remember about 7 years ago I got my first tnc(MFJ-1270C). I was so excited to get into packet radio I drove three hours just to pick it up. By 10'oclock that night I was on. A whole new world of ham radio was open to me. For about two years I bounced back and forth between packet and ARPS. Then uncle sam moved me and for about five years my hame station was reduced to a dual band ht. Now that I have been stable for a while now I decided to break out the tnc again and see what advancement have been made. Everthing setup ready to go and........nothing. Just a few blips of traffic. Packet was once so crowded that was crazy. So I fired up the aprs program, reconfig. the tnc and input all the settings in the program and waited. The traffic was a little more active but not nearly the same as it was a few years ago. What happened? Am I just in the ham radio black hole(Harnett County, NC) or is the hobby not as active as it once was.