Papa Dog wrote:
I've been studying for my ham license. I hope when I get on the bands
that they aren't like this group. If so I'll be very disappointed.

Chris

You'll do fine on the air. It isn't nearly this bad at all on the air.
You'll find a few screws loose on 2 meters but HF tends to be much more
calm the past few years. A lot of this is the effect of certain
miscreants affiliated with the 14.313/3.894 dogfights of the 70s, 80s,
and 90s.

The story behind this newsgroup becoming a dump started back in the
1970s with a few miscreant hams from the 4 call area in the Southeast
US. At least that is where most of them lived over the years. When the
FCC enacted enforcement of these people it started to move over to the
internet. There are some of us who would like to see a calm and peaceful
group here with the removal of a couple of scumbags one of which is from
the 8 call area. You would see this group become a lot more like the
rec.radio.amateur.misc group of the distant past. Always been a few nuts
but most of my comments are reserved for a certain dirtball.

Hope you enjoy the bands and your VHF and HF privileges, I think you
will find it to be interesting and fun.