On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:39:09 GMT, "charlesb"
wrote:


"Gene Storey" wrote in message
news:xpfEb.2188$6l1.1526@okepread03...

It's sort of like the ford and chevy argument.

I suppose it might seem that way, if you were a clueless moron. - Implying
that the Internet and Radio were two interchangeable aspects of the amateur
radio hobby and that there really is no difference between ham radio and
commercial, non-ham stuff. - So why not just get on the Internet and call it
Ham Radio?

Why is there so much hostility towards IRLP?

It's because there are so many hams who are too intelligent to go for Gene's
alleged "reasoning" in this matter.

They see the damage it does to the hobby and unlike Gene, they care.

What damage? If anything it will maybe help save the hobby which
is little, by little dying. If the hobby doesn't modernize and change
then it will die. Young people don't see or care for CW, but with
computers, they do see a way to communicate and are trying to
bring people into the modern era of ham radio. It's the old timers
that keep resisting change that are going to kill the hobby and
if they keep bashing the younger people that are finding new
ways to communicate via computer/radio, they will leave and
the FCC will continue to take the frequencies that ham radio
uses away since they are not being used, mainly VHF & UHF.

Regards,

James

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