Hi Jim. I've been off h f for a few years due to
antenna problems and rig problems, need some new tubes
for my ft 101,so I'm not active in it now, but I
started out in the early 90's on a local 2 meter net
back in Arizona, actually it wasn't so local because
the repeater was 7000 feet and commanded a huge area
from Prescott to the Phoenix area and some stations in
the California desert checked in now and then. I was
net control for a year or 2, I also checked in to the
75 meter local net and some region nets when I could,
which wasn't regular cuz I had t v i problems. I
checked in to various nets on 75 and 40 phone
sporadically for a couple years after I moved out here
to Kansas, and that's about it.

--- Jim Kutsch <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I was very active in the 1970s in West Virginia in
> the phone and CW nets and
> was NCS one day a week for several years.  Later in
> NJ in the 80s, I was
> active and again a once a week net control for a 2M
> traffic net.  There was
> lots of traffic back then.
>
> I'm inactive now mostly because I don't have good HF
> antennas up here and
> there's no traffic to speak of on the local 2 meter
> repeater.
> 73, KY2D
> Jim Kutsch
> Jacksonville, FL
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 01:11
> Subject: any other regular traffic handlers on this
> list other than kk3f and
> my
>
>
> HI folks,
>
> Just curious how many folks here are active traffic
> handlers or have
> been in the past.  IF you were and are no longer I"m
> curious as to
> what caused you to become inactive.
>
> AS an area net manager and regular liaison to region
> and area nets
> I've noticed participation is a lot less.  I also
> note fewer people
> generating true third party traffic.  YEs I've heard
> the arguments
> that with the internet fewer people need to use it.
> HOwever I
> maintain that almost every ham has family or close
> friends who aren't
> connected.
>
> I'm a big booster of the system as I believe it's
> still the best
> training opportunity  we can get as hams.  WHen the
> rubber meets the
> road and we're called out to serve our communities
> we may have battery
> packs and what not but if the operating skills
> aren't there only half
> of the job is done.  Therefore the fall off in
> participation concerns me
>
> Hence a little informal survey of memberships of a
> couple of ham lists
> I'm on.  Email me off list if you prefer.
>
> 73 de nf5b
>
>
>
> Richard Webb
>
> Electric Spider Productions
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
> little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>
> --- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the
> Historical review of Pennsylvania


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