M0WYM wrote:
Michael Coslo wrote:


Fine. My interpretation of Amateur is a person who cannot do
things in a professional manner, a person who is interested in
something, but for lack of intelligence, skill, persistence, or
talent, will never become proficient in what they are interested
in.

You are entitled to your extremely judgemental interpretation but it is
not necessarily correct!

An amateur is a person who is not a professional, a professional is
someone who is paid for their skill(s). Nowhere does it say that
either is competent or incompetent. Many amateurs are vastly more
skilled than professionals operating in the same area.

Incapable of recognizing sarcasm, or just looking for an argument?

I was replying to our good D. Stussy, who indeed has a problem with the
word amateur, and seems to have issues with the obese.

I am an amateur radio operator in the classic definition, that of one
who loves the activity, not in the much more recent corruption of the
word - that of non-professional or shoddy.

Most very strange in a world where I can perform most activities much
better than th eso called professionals.

- 73 de Mike N3LI -