Al Klein wrote:

And none of the current crop of CBers is qualified to provide military
(or any other coherent form of) communications.

Why? I assume you really mean that the current crop of new hams needs
education. Have you done anything? How many new hams have you elmered?

Are you active on 2m? Do you speak to new no-code hams and offer to teach
them morse code, let them see your HF station in operation? Have them
assist you during contests?

If all you do is hang out on the HF bands, and complain about how bad
the new hams are, they will stay that way. Whose fault is that?

73,

Geoff.

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