Well, I didn't come here to make any friends, they bother me not... I
don't think we need be standing on pomp and circumstance in these
times...
My skin is about as thick as ones can get, and I darn well know how to
call a spade a spade--still deal with jr college kids two nights a
week... these old guys aren't anything next to them...

Warmest regards,
John
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From: John Smith on Jun 8, 10:16 pm

Yes, that is correct... and probaby only 1/5 of THOSE 4/5 will bother
with the ARRL...

John

John, Hans just doesn't understand. When he gets like that
he is extremely touchy-grouchy.

Regardless, the League still doesn't have but about 1 out of
every 5 U.S. amateur radio licensees as members. The League
can't seem to "raise" that much. A couple years ago they
got to about 23%, then it fell off.


"K0HB" wrote in message
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Haynie has said that a "survey" showed fully 1 in 5 hams
actually got on the air?

Dammit Len, your reading comprehension really is badly deteriorated.
See a specialist quickly.

Tsk, tsk, master super chief of all. Didn't you notice a
little QUESTION MARK I put at the end of my sentence?
You quoted it and STILL didn't see it! YOUR problem, not
mine. Read it again and RECOGNIZE the punctuation.

Sigh.

What Haynie said was that the survey revealed that "more than
one-fifth of new amateur licensees never get on the air."

Go uncork a fifth and go for stupor-ville, mighty super
master chief. You will feel better...but not in the morning.

Good luck on this one, now...

From: "John Smith" on Wed 8 Jun 2005 22:07

Well, I didn't come here to make any friends, they bother me not... I
don't think we need be standing on pomp and circumstance in these
times...

Understood and agree with you.

But, to most in here, there IS a "pomp and circumstance"
going on in their imaginations. Mostly stuffed in there by
dilligent and effective brainwashing of the big publishing
house in Newington.

"Amateur radio is a SERVICE" crow some. Their imaginations
conjur up a military service with rigid rules/regulations
which MUST be adhered to at all times. All SHALL march to
the same drum-beat. Everyone MUST think alike. Dumb for
a hobby activity which is supposed to be fun, a recreation.

My skin is about as thick as ones can get, and I darn well know how to
call a spade a spade--still deal with jr college kids two nights a
week... these old guys aren't anything next to them...

Heh heh heh. After 20 1/2 years of doing computer-modem
communications, I've got armor plate for skin as well.
Being a co-sysop on a BBS was an interesting experience,
that of seeing both the private and public text "life' of
some participants. More like a lab class in advanced
clinical psychology. Morbidly fascinating.

The main theme of most "regulars" in here (mental olde-fahrts
all) is SELF-IMPORTANCE. Further, each one is ALWAYS RIGHT.
None may be corrected for that is an outrageous "insult" on
their very being...and that calls for Flame War! FIGHT!
FIGHT! FIGHT! [gotta love it sometimes...:-) ]

If they don't have anything specific to FIGHT about, some
will MANUFACTURE things in order to misdirect "blame" from
them to the challenger. See this Stebie-manufactured
"Motorola didn't exist in WW2" thread. Has NOTHING to do
with amateur radio but he deems it "necessary" in order
to "prove" his "enemy" is "wrong." :-)

Never mind that the MOTOROLA logo and brand name identity
was known to the public prior to WW2, the deluded one has
to show the "total wrongness" of one in a previous
statement! Never mind that the existance consisted of
some legal statements and a lot of corporate letter heads
being changed in Chicago..."Motorola did not exist prior to
1947!" Terrible "wrongness." :-)

The silliness of some of those statements of accusation is
marvelous to behold. That human beans get so wrought up in
damnation of others is fascinating. Transparent to any
sane person reading all this. So is that "No kids, lids,
or space cadets" supposedly remarked by an old ham once. :-)

Some of the denizens of this din of inequity are just nuts.