On 4/1/2012 8:17 AM, Channel Jumper wrote:
Think about it - Net time - those old hams - their knobs are set in
stone and they refuse to operate except on that one frequency.
It might as well be channelized.

I guess you would know, being as you call yourself the "channel
jumper"... :/

40 meters - most people won't even turn the knob and you almost never
hear anyone yelling CQ - because the net people has their own little
channel where they talk and when they are done talking - they shut the
radio off.

Well, of course... I never call CQ on phone.. Only pikers and
people with bad radio breath need to call CQ on phone..

20 meters on the weekend and evenings is just as bad.

People have been known to turn off their radios after
operation for years and years..


10 meters is so quiet - the only people you get to talk to most times is
someone from somewhere else.
Then when the retarded contests comes along - you can barely find a
place to talk between 28.300 and 28.500 mhz.

Well now.. lets see 28.300-28.500.. That's the old "novice"
phone band. Which is a fairly tiny sliver of 10m.
I guess it never occurred to you to maybe bump it up the
band a bit?

80 and 160 meters at night is just as bad.
All the cussing and swearing and sex talk going on.

BS.. You will hear very little of this on 160m..
And not nearly as much as you might think on 75..

Then you have these new hams - the ones with the cell phones, the
internet and walkie talkies - because they do not understand how
transmitting works and they refuse to spend any money.

What about them? As long as they don't bother me, I could care
less what they do. If they want to prowl the neighborhood with
a belt full of HT's, how would this effect you?


At the same time - you can't buy used equipment anymore, because the
vultures scarfs up all the used equipment they can find from the SK
hams.

BS again.. No one is scarfing up anything unless the estate
decides to sell, and they are the ones in a position to decide
a price.

Half the times it is sold on flea bay for more then it is worth!

Only in America is such a thing possible.. :|



The quality of people - with the CB radio crowd and kids taking it over
- it might as well be CB radio.

It's obvious that you really don't have a clue.. CB radio crowd?
There is no CB radio crowd, and there hasn't been a CB radio crowd
for many years. I listened to an old E.F. Johnson CB the other day,
when I dug one out of my vast supply of radios, and gave it away
to a friend of mine.
I didn't test it out before I took it over there, but we plugged
it in at his house. It worked. But there was no crowd on the CB
spectrum. :/ You would be lucky to hear a lost truck driver..
BTW, my friend is not a CBer per say.. He just likes to overhaul
these old radios and then sell them on flea bay for vast amounts
of money.

You can't teach people who's ears are closed and mouths are open.

You also can't teach people who spend all their time channel
jumping..

At the same time, the doors on the old hams houses might as well be made
out of solid steel - because very few people gets into their shacks and
you definitely don't get to talk on their equipment.

This is true. I don't want any hairy legged whiners bothering me.
My door isn't steel, but it's fairly thick wood, and I'm quite well
armed. So if the door doesn't stop you, I will, when one comes
crashing through it. And I never miss.

But also, you have to consider that if you have seen one shack,
you have pretty much seen them all. :/
Also, I'm generally bored with radio at the house, and spend much more
time tinkering with and flying my 737 NG simulator these days,
than playing with all my radios.
I spend much more time on the radio when I'm at my recreational
living center, than I do at home.


Because the old hams refuses to teach the new hams, and because some of
the old hams are lousy LIDS and doesn't know how to operate in the first
place - nothing is being taught.

Life is a bitch, and then some end whining about it..


Its hard to teach ham radio to these people who's only radio is a hand
held.
What is there for them to learn except how to program it.

Funny.. I had no problem learning about ham radio, even when I
had no ham radios at all.