Hi Channel Jumper

How do you actually see people? I mean that is what you said.




"Channel Jumper" wrote in message
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David Quest;788733 Wrote:
It's alive and well......Spread the word

The problem is not if it is alive or dead, it is the quality of people
involved with amateur radio today.

I see a couple of different types of people.
The leaders
The followers
The Sheep
The dumb asses with the walkie talkies, cell phones, voip - computer -
that doesn't want to do Ham Radio - they want to do Cell Phone and
Computer radio.

Then you have the old guys - who have done it all and doesn't want to
help anyone - is too old to buy anything new, spends most of their time
tuning up over other peoples QSO's and only talks on nets.

Then you have the old hams - the guys that were licensed as teen agers,
realizes that the old hams are going to die or retire. That thinks that
the world owes them something. Wants to be the section manager or
regional manager of the ARRL. The low life scum that thinks that it is
political.
Who gets the sheep to blindly follow them, gets the followers to follow
them - with the promise that they will help them someday - maybe.
Assumes the role of leaders at their local clubs - but doesn't really do
much of anything.
For the most part - you have a lot of clubs where the President makes
all the rules and demands that everyone else just blindly follow them.
The followers thinks that belonging to a club will automatically make
them ham radio operators - yet the President and the officers don't
actually teach anything, doesn't actually Elmer anyone and their only
goal is to use the club as a stepping stone - get the votes to become
the section manager etc and then the people who helped get them to where
they are at - are forgotten.

Just look at the officers of the ARRL and see where they came from, and
their age, and the people who are lining up to take their jobs.


Then you have the Vultures.
You know who you are!
The ones that circles a mans house when he is dead or dying.
Looking to steal all of his / her ham radio equipment when they die.
Probably the main reason why there are so few hams who becomes
Generals.

Once people gets their Technician Class License, finds out how much new
radios cost, can't afford a used radio - even if it is available and
just drops out after a couple of months or years - because there is no
incentive to advance.

The clubs preaches public service and ECOM - but doesn't really do much
of anything about it.
Most people cannot take traffic and are unwilling to even talk on the
radio.
They are of no use to anyone in a emergency - unless the only traffic
you want to pass is their call sign and No Traffic - because that is all
that they have said on the local nets all of their ham radio careers.




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Channel Jumper