so sad, looks like yet another amateur radio operator has completely
forgotten that it is indeed, amateur radio.
It's a hobby, and an amateur hobby at that...there are different levels of
knowledge and skill and intelligents...when someone begins to believe they
are above a group or that a sub set of people is not worth being in the
hobby or a part of the main group, then it's arrogants and ego that are
talking.
Remember, Hitler didn't like the Jews either for the same reasons. The
thought process was that they were unintelligent, wastes of humanity that
shouldn't exist in a world where there was a supreme and pure race of
people.
Your not a NAZI, but don't get caught up in thinking you are so much better
than others because they choose to put the amateur back into amateur radio
lol.
There will always be people and things that people do that you don't
like...but it doesn't mean those people don't have a perfectly legitimate
right to be doing those things if they choose to.
73
Colin, V A6BS
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: Fun on 10 meters
> I'm with Ed on this one, I monitor the local repeaters for the clubs I
> belong to and my own but could never think of "working" dx through them.
> Certainly couldn't get excited about it if I did. But then, when I hear
> these people on 2 meters, figures it's 2, who think, it's fun to bring up
> as
> many repeaters as they can when the band's open, meanwhile effectively
> rendering many more repeaters useless between them and the repeater and in
> other directions all so they can work that one a couple states away, it
> makes me want to go through the radio and strangle them. Another of the
> things that keeps me off 2 meters. If I was soully responsible for a
> repeater jammed by people doing that, or if I was an OO, which I am
> working
> on, there would be a lot of letters sent out on that one for the people
> that
> do it on purpose and brag about it. It's not half as bad as people who
> actually think the internet constitutes radio but still nothing I'd
> support
> and is something I think needs to be looked at hard.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Fun on 10 meters
>
>
>> Well, Ed, since I couldn't copy any of the guys I worked on the input,
>> the
>> repeater served a useful purpose. It was kind of a novelty to work
>> someone
>> in my own state through a repeater halfway across the country.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ed Malmgren" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 22:19
>> Subject: Fw: Fun on 10 meters
>>
>>
>>> Well, I guess I must be out of the loop on some things, I just can't
>>> see
>>> what fun it is working through a repeater. I guess I'm from the old
>>> school.
>>> I would think repeaters would be used for when line of site
>>> comunications
>>> are out of the pix. Glad there are those things for the folks who like
>>> them
>>> however. Cheers, have fun. Ed K7UC
>>>
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