"N2EY" wrote:

Dwight, you previously said you didn't
know any parents who would keep
their kids out of ham radio over a
callsign like Kim's. Well, I know plenty
of parents who would not support their
kids' being involved in ham radio if their
first (or second, or third) impression
involved such callsigns. (snip)


Really? Can you show even one example of someone who has kept their kid
out of Amateur Radio because of Kim's callsign, or any of the callsigns I've
listed over the last couple of days? I haven't seen one person of the child
rearing age group voice a single complaint about this in this newsgroup.
Instead, I see old men, some too old to even have young, impressionable,
grandkids, in a newsgroup acting like hearing the word "tit" was the shock
of their life. I'm not buying it, Jim. This whole debate has a ring of false
indignation around it. Kim's callsign is only as vulgar as you, the person
hearing it, makes it. I don't think tits are vulgar, and I hope kids don't
think that (if they do, someone certainly failed to educate them properly).


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

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