On Jan 23, 9:13�pm, Mike Coslo wrote:

* * * * Q and A pools are here to stay, Amateur radio is no exception.

As I've said many times.

The
moaning and wailing, gnashing of teeth and hand wringing about the good
old days -that my research convinces me *weren't* anyhow - is more
likely just nostalgia for a time that didn't really exist.

Well, I've been a ham for almost 40 years, and in my life experience,
some things back then were better, and some weren't.

* * * * I can understand that a little bit. Since I got my license, I've
started a love affair with hollow state. I love the heat, the look and
feel, even the smell of that vintage equipment.

I suggest you subscribe to the Glowbugs reflector. See:

http://www.mines.uidaho.edu/~glowbugs/

for more info.

But there is too much evidence that those good old days weren't all
that good after all.

Some things were better, some were worse.

* * * * I wonder who is going to provide a better learning environment,
people such as myelf - a presumably substandard product of the dumbed
down newfangled system, who only passed a 5wpm code test, and the
"easy" new tests, or one of the old geniuses who comes into the room
with the attitude that the new ham is as likely an idiot as not?

I vote for the person who is knowledgeable, and willing/able to share
that knowledge. Regardless of what exact tests they took for their
license.

--

There's all sorts of Elmering going on via the online environment -
one simply
has to know where to look. I have found email reflectors to be a much
better resource than usenet.

73 es CU in GB de Jim, N2EY