Colin, have you figured out a fast way to use facebook and twitter?
I assumed that all the tweat abreviations would require a huge constantly
growing pronunciation dictionary.
Somebody wished me happy birthday on facebook and it took me an hour to
figure out how to say thankyou.
I unsubscribed from facebook that same day.


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Colin McDonald
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 3:01 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: how the hobby has changed in 30 years Etc.

you have a great point about the social media thing...the joke goes that
women used to say to guys "hey, my eyes are up here" and now it's "hey, look
at me not your phone"
I tend to try and cashae social media interaction into real life social
situations as much as is possible.  In otherwords, I use social media to
plan get togethers and events with friends...rather than using facebook or
twitter as the main source of my socialization.


73
Colin, V A6BKX





-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Gammon
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 1:34 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: how the hobby has changed in 30 years Etc.

Hi Colin, first, your ideas and thoughts as usual, are very well stated.
Maybe your sticky notes aren't sticky enough so they never got turned in.
Seriously though, when I was reading your thoughts, it occurred to me that,
like ham radio, the animal groups have also been declining over time.  By
Animal groups, I mean the Lions, Elks, Moose, and so-on are or seem to all
be struggling to keep their numbers up.  Don't know about the rotary and
siroptimists, but I think that many people, especially young ones, has been
getting into the social media stuff and don't feel the same need for direct
interaction like meetings etc.  Maybe this portends some major underlying
social change because of technology, maybe even polarization, especially in
the US.  I belong to two ham clubs here.  One, has a breakfast every fourth
Saturday of the month which usually gets about 20 to 25 hams and their
significant others, maybe some wannabees.  The other club has a Friday
evening meeting that usually has a tech lecture most months  or auction a
couple times a year.  I have not gone to that usuY for lack of a reade but I
think it's fairly well attended.  I don't have a sense of the numbers in
each club, but another local club seems to be cranking out new hams some of
whom I have heard and talked too on VHF.  Wish I had the secret solution for
you, and us in general.  I don't think free pizza and beer would even
encourage folks for too long.
Speaking of HF, I got my ALS600 fired up and am not using any antenna tuner
in line since I found out the Ldg AT600 Pro II auto tuner is just plain Not
Blind friendly, even LDG wrote me about that.  Now I gotta return the thing
to HRO hoping they will give me back most of the $338  I spent on it.  Hope
we can talk on HF, bands permitting, one of these days.  I could barely hear
Lloyd yesterday and called numerous times using the amp never to be heard.
Kind of disappointing but 20 meters was pretty bad.  Well enough for now,
73, Jim WA6EKS