Dave:

Try to keep in the forefront of your mind that everyday which goes by sees
another of the 60+ year olds dominating HF, suffer a stroke, succumb to
alzheimers, suffer massive a heart attack, etc, etc... indeed, a quick
scan and monitor of the bands discloses much, too much chit-chat on the
medical element which is plaguing them...

The next five years are GOING to be devastating on this groups numbers...

You only need logic to read those tea leaves...

John

On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:32:45 +0000, Dave Heil wrote:

John Smith wrote:
Dave:

Anyone with a computer can grab the statistics off the FCC and arrl sites,
who is left which trusts them, if you, don't include me.

I trust them and you are excluded. I know much about the FCC and the
ARRL. I don't know a thing about you, nor would I trust you.

No, I was born at different time, when you got real data, real numbers,
real people to stand behind it, I understand the youngsters might be
confused by all this, but all us old timers have a real past when
everything was different. We have a bit more "history" to go by....

If you told the truth in stating your age, I'm about a year older. So
you weren't born at a differeent time. I'm still getting real data and
real numbers. I have no reason to doubt the numbers. Each radio
amateur has a published name and address. If you'd like to randomly
sample for accuracy, start writing to a number of them.

I guess you can just chuck me into the "conspiracy nuts" group...

I'd already done so.

I don't
trust the figure, politicians, and news anymore...

That probably accounts for the pseudonym.


if I have to
appoligize for it, so be it... but don't consider it a half-felt one...

A man should never have to apologize for being a conspiracy nut. It
marks him as a rugged individualist.

Frankly, I like progress, don't much care for liars and "spin doctors."

If you don't pay attention to figures, politicians and the news, how do
you know we're making progress?

Dave K8MN

On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 03:34:26 +0000, Dave Heil wrote:


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