Your own response is infantile in parts - if you
disagree, you can be grown-up about it without
indulging in unnecessary gratuitous emotionalisms.

You are missing the point which is that the Hobby that
is about operating is CB Radio. Ham Radio OTOH is a technical
pursuit.

It is not infantile to say that we are adults in a society of
adults and that we do not wish to associate or be assocaited
with children.

The action of "bringing in" is also misguided - those of
a technical bent who are our natural successors will
gravitate towards us. We do not need to, nor should we,
go out and press non-technical ignoramuses and persuade
them that to think that they are Radio Hams.

Carl R. Stevenson wrote:
I really hesitate to even appear to lend any credence to the rant below by
even responding ...
However, at the same time I feel compelled to state that, when I had the
pleasure of operating 4U1ITU from ITU HQ in Geneva (not too long after the
US insituted the "Foundation Class"), I happily worked a LOT of M3's
(perhaps 50% of about 300 contacts worked in about 2 hours on 20m) and found
them to be quite well up on how to POLITELY work a DX station in a pile-up
(4U1ITU invariably generates a pileup when someone activates it).
I find the "give the youngsters the cold shoulder" suggestion below to be
itself infantile and it's clearly not in the best interests of the future of
ham radio.
We *must* bring in the kids who will be the future generation of hams -
otherwise when we go SK there will BE no ham radio because there won't be
enough hams to justify our frequency allocations.