Dee:

Nope, never have seen all the bandwidths in as much use as back during the
70's and early 80's, did you have a ticket back then? My gawd, those
oldtimers have forgotten what a real "pileup" means! Congestion worse
than imagined in my worst nightmare!

Never have had interest in "contesting", much prefer just a gentle
argument around stuff which "seems to matter"... never had a wall covered
with QSL cards, only asked the ones who interested me, which I wanted to
be reminded of, to correspond--hell, guess I am "not with it", but never
have been, don't count one me now to "get with it."
lack-a-daisyial-grin-and-a-wink... that "different drummer" has always
caught my attention, started listening as a youth, never quit...

I have never been afraid to be different, if there is just one of me--so
be it!

John

On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:51:27 -0400, Dee Flint wrote:


"Dave Heil" wrote in message
k.net...
John Smith wrote:
Dee:

I differ with that figure, I think it is inflated about half, this is
VERY apparent when tuning the bands... something is OBVIOUSLY wrong with
that figure. I suspect it is like our "unemployment figure" here in the
USA, that ONLY depicts those who are "drawing" unemployment, not those
who
have used up their unemployment, only worked part time and are not
eligible, those who have given up on looking for work, etc... Those
figures are "cooked" and those in the know--KNOW IT!

John

You purport to be an active radio amateur and you didn't even have a
realistic idea of how many hams there are in the United States? Do you
think the FCC and ARRL are in collusion and they've whipped up some
massive coverup of the number of licensees? Sheesh!

Dave Heil

And he obviously hasn't been on the bands during a major contest! Wall to
wall signals is inadequate to describe the activity.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE