There's a group on 3910 every day in this part of the country that does 
nothing but stuff like that to get people going and most use legit call 
signs, or what appear to be. I know a couple are because I've met them at 
ham fests and that's all they want is to get people going. Maybe I'm twisted 
but if I'm alone, everyone went to bed or what ever, I sometimes find them 
entertaining because like a comedy show, I know not to take them serious. 
That being said I can't say I'd be disappointed to see them all taken off 
the air but they've been there doing the same thing since long before I 
became a ham 18 years ago, they've all been fined, most have had license 
suspensions and what not but they always come back and I don't think they've 
had anything happen in over 10 years. Sometimes they go too far even to be 
entertaining but more often than not they are entertaining. With all the 
local groups coming up on 10 meters though I'm thinking if I have time soon 
I may come up with an antenna for there and start getting back on there at 
night.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: terrible behavior on two meter repeater: you guys won't believe 
this


> and these guys accomplished exactly what they set out to.  That is, they 
> got
> someone riled up by what they were saying.
> The whole point of doing that ont he air is to get people riled and upset
> and pissed off.  It's partially to get attention and partially just for
> their own sense of entertainment.
> It's like this, they feel empowered by pretending to think and believe 
> what
> they are saying, and when they piss someone off, because that person 
> really
> thinks they believe this stuff, they can sit back and laugh and say, oh,
> what an idiot for thinking we think that for real. It's a form of power 
> over
> others, manipulation and causing them to think a certain way which is 
> false.
> It makes them feel smarter and better than others.
> It's stupid and petty and anoying, but that's all it is lol.
> They probably got off the repeater and went back to channel 19 to harass
> people down there.
> Just goes to show, anyone can get a ham license right.
> Speaking of that, when you do hear suspicious stuff on the air like that,
> get call signs and check them out.  if they don't check out you can assume
> they are pirate stations and can alert others to simply ignore anything 
> they
> might say.
> But, they were probably legitimate licensed hams who just had nothing 
> better
> to do than make inflamitory statements.
> And before some old fart responds on here and says something to effect of
> what has ham radio come to and it was never like that back when I was 
> first
> licensed, crap like this, and far worse, has been going on for many 
> decades
> on the amateur radio bands.
> Let's not forget, it is amateur radio and not professional radio, so one
> cannot expect everyone to follow some gentlemans agreement about on air
> conduct.
> Take a listen to 14.313 some time, or some groups on 75 meters.  they're
> worse, and go on every single day.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
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