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On Jan 29, 8:11 pm, d wrote:
What is, and has been, needed is fresh blood in the hobby. How many
THOUSAND more hams would there be right NOW if the dumbasses (you know
who you are) that have fought dropping the pathetically obsolete
requirement for Morse hadn't been so short-sighted?

Morse is a wonderful thing. Seriously. I know it to be true. But driving
it down the throats of people that have no interest in it = insane. Like
requiring a 747 pilot to be fully competent with the operation of
Sopwith Camel. Very cool stuff, but how is it related to what they
intend to do?

More hams would have had the effect of drawing more attention to HF.
What ham hasn't introduced family, friends and even strangers to HF
listening in one way or another?

More hams = more "evangelists" for the hobby.

/bitching done for now
//misses the BBC broadcasts to North America
///afraid that all HF as we know it will soon be a thing of the past

Times change



Roadie wrote:

On Jan 29, 12:35 pm, wrote:

That reflects what most of us know - there is less and less to hear on
the HF bands and there are fewer and fewer people tuning in. The
shortage of messages even remotely related to shortwave on
rec.radio.shortwave is yet another indicator of how shortwave radio
has changed.- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -

/pats fool on head

1. The original interesting post, among other things, wrote "Also there
is a general downward trend in interest over the past few years."

2. Then YOU, among other things, wrote "That reflects what most of us
know - there is less and less to hear on the HF bands and there are
fewer and fewer people tuning in."

3. I then commented on what I believe may have been a contributing
factor to the problem.

There. All set? Try to keep up, mmmmkay?



Roadie wrote:
Helpful hint for the day:
Before responding it helps to read messages you are responding to in
their entirety. Once you have mastered that skill others will be able
to understand why you write the things that you do.

Try once again buckwheat. The O.P. was referring to how frequently
the terms world band and shortwave were used and he noted that there
was a downward in in tnterest reflected by those numbers. He was not
talking about morse code.

On Jan 30, 7:04 am, d wrote:
/pats fool on head

1. The original interesting post, among other things, wrote "Also there
is a general downward trend in interest over the past few years."

2. Then YOU, among other things, wrote "That reflects what most of us
know - there is less and less to hear on the HF bands and there are
fewer and fewer people tuning in."

3. I then commented on what I believe may have been a contributing
factor to the problem.

There. All set? Try to keep up, mmmmkay?



Roadie wrote:
Helpful hint for the day:
Before responding it helps to read messages you are responding to in
their entirety. Once you have mastered that skill others will be able
to understand why you write the things that you do.- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -