"Larry Roll K3LT" wrote:

Belittling ham radio? Moi??? Hmmm, you may have
a point there. Now that ham radio licensing
requirements in the U.S. have been reduced to
insignificance, and are about to be made a whole
lot less significant when code testing is
abolished, I guess one could make the point that
there is a lot "belittleable" about ham radio
these days! We are about to start the first
"generation" of hams who have never been bothered
to learn the Morse code, and will never know the
benefits and advantages of the Morse/CW mode from
personal operational experience. Now THERE's a
perfect example of something that would inspire
one to "belittle" ham radio, indeed!


Well, if you don't like ham radio today, perhaps you should find another
hobby. Only a masochist would continue doing something that makes him or her
miserable. Ham radio is moving in a direction opposite from what you seem to
want and is not likely to move in the direction you want anytime soon. When
that happens, you either learn to live with it, walk away, or continue to be
miserable. If you choose the later, it is rather sleazy of you to take your
misery out on the new members of this activity. They didn't ask for your
negative garbage (none of us did), and this activity certainly would be far
better off without it.


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/