No one cares if you can bounce a signal over the oceans. That is old technology. Even researching in a foreign library while sitting in your USA living room is becoming common on the Internet. The world is becoming smaller. A lot of it is because of the work that the HAMs have done over the years.
HAMs are the ones who drove the technological advances and research when no one else was doing it.
It was first tried out by HAMs and then put into production for profit by the electronic industry. If it is analog, the HAMs had something to do with it or its history. I agree with the recommendations. Accept that you are a pool of talent of analog electronics in a world that is going stark raving mad over digital electronics. You science is not dead.