yeah,
there is a lot of that. However, quite a few of the hams I speak with on 40 meters at night are a very technical lot. SOme, like me, are computer savvy. Others have a more specialized background (like electronics or communications engineering).
Sometimes we do get a little off topic, but it doesn't stay that way for long. Hell, you should hear the gun smoke crowd on the local 146.940 machine here in phoenix. About the only subjects not discussed there are either of an obscene nature or simply inappropriate for over the air consumption. THere is also the DX spotters on there (and they are at it all day, every day).
Oh yeah, and let us not forget the tin foil hat crowd (discussing perpetual motion, and other subjects of a fringe nature). I refer to that as the X-Files crowd.
anyway, ham radio is a lot like any other community.
May 17, 2014, at 1:31 PM, Phil Scovell wrote:
> When I tune around, especially on 75 and 20 meters, I hear groups of hams
> discussing antennas, amplifiers, towers, guns, loading their own ammunition,
> their cars and trucks, religion, politics, computers, gear from 50 years
> ago, how their wife and kids and grandkids are doing, what they are going to
> do on vacation this year, their physical problems, equipment they want to
> sell, buy, or trade, what they like to eat, getting the car painted, and so
> many topics unrelated to ham radio, it is unbelievable. I heard a long talk
> by a guy just recently who had been on cancer treatments and how his son got
> him some marijuana and he said for a year, it kept his pain and physical
> discomforts down so he could function and now he is doing great and doesn't
> need the grass any longer. This is a drop in the bucket from what I hear so
> why does blind hams have to be so different? I agree with Ron and Jim. I
> delete more than I read on any list regardless of the list main topic of
> discussion. This list has answered hundreds of my questions over the years
> and I've been on blind hams since its conception. I personally enjoy the
> off topic talk as much as the on topic ham talk because that's how it works
> on the air.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
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