Did we miss the point by much?
C'mon, if you wanna nit pick the episode, you missed a few:
1) Ed didn't ID properly. He should have ID'ed as PY8/W0ASQ, not WB0ASQ/PY8.
2) No one ID'ed except for the first time.
3) Everyone was S9 Moreover, everyone was FM quality, there were no tuner uppers, no QRM, and no QSB.
I could probably think of some more.
But you missed the point. Maybe someone yelled at her off the air or something. Who cares? But you still missed the point:
1) Ham radio is fun.
2) "Ham radio is like twitter, except more sophisticated because you don't have to type." (Yes, it's the original social network.)
3) Ham radio is educational. (Mandy learned a lot of stuff that helped her write a better term paper.)
4) Ham radio lets you talk to people all over the place. (Ed wa in Brazil, out on the Amazon somewhere, and then there's the Russian woman.)
So, all in all, not bad. OK, Mandy didn't have a license, and the other hams didn't yell at her for that on the air. It's TV. It's "artistic license".
--
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
On Mar 16, 2013, at 1:29 PM, "TheSkyDancer, (KD8TIG)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This was my issue with this show. It made it look like it's cool for
> someone to be transmitting with no license. Which we all know, it isn't. I
> don't know, maybe I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill, I just hope some
> kid doesn't get the idea they can go and do that with their parent's rig.
> Other than that, it is an ok show.
> Kind regards,
> Ben, (KD8TIG)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Gammon
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 10:07 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Last Man Standing
>
> Hi list, also, when I first heard the plot of this show, it made
> it sound like they didn't mind a non-ham bootlegging on her dad's
> station. Surprising in that a ham was very much involved in the
> production of the show. Still hasn't shown here, have to wait
> another 54 minutes. 73, Jim WA6EKS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lowell Miller <[log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date sent: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:49:44 -0400
> Subject: Re: Last Man Standing
>
> Bob, I agree; I did not think that it represented ham radio very
> well.
> They made it sound like C B operation.
> That's just my opinion.
> 73
> Lowell Miller
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob, K8LR" <[log in to unmask]
> To: <[log in to unmask]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 8:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Last Man Standing
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> I watched but did not record the show, it had two short segments
> on ham
> radio, but I was not impressed!
>
> Bob, K8LR, [log in to unmask]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John J. Jacques" <[log in to unmask]
> To: <[log in to unmask]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 8:17 PM
> Subject: Last Man Standing
>
>
> Hi all, is anyone planning on recording Last Man
> Standing
> this evening? This is supposed to be the show featuring Ham
> Radio! It
> is already on in the Eastern time zone!
>
> 73:
> John
>
>
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