I can't complain about my neighborhood, everyone knows and looks out for
each other for the most part. There are some who we haven't met but for the
most part I know everyone around me, we've all eaten at each other's
cookouts, spent many hours sitting on each other's porches or in each
other's back yards talking. I even remember a couple times we had power
outages that were going to be a couple hours so we all find a yard to stand
in and talk. It's rare I know but not completely dead. IF there's someone in
the neighborhood up to no good we spread the word to each other fast too.
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From: "Carjohns27" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 2:32 AM
Subject: Re: how the hobby has changed in 30 years Etc.
> A-men with that one. I fully agree. What a shame.
>
> Carolyn Kj4vt
>
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> From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 5:05 PM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: how the hobby has changed in 30 years Etc.
>
>> Jim,
>> What you said here goes along with something I heard on the radio
>> recently. It was a brief news item that someone's survey indicates
>> that thirty percent of persons contacted had not nor intended to meet
>> their neighbors. That just amazed me. With all of the social media,
>> guess actually meeting people is out of fashion. When i grew up,
>> although God knows that was eons ago, the neighborhood was every kids
>> turf. During the summer, from dawn to evening, all of us hung out
>> together and if you ran off the rails, any neighbors mom or dad could
>> call you on it. Do that today and you'd have the cops and seven
>> lawyers all over you!!
>> i don't understand all the changes but I don't think i necessarily
>> approve of them. Like that will make a difference.
>> pat, K9JAUAt 02:34 PM 7/13/2015, you wrote:
>>>Hi Colin, first, your ideas and thoughts as usual, are very well
>>>stated. Maybe your sticky notes aren't sticky enough so they
>>>never got turned in. Seriously though, when I was reading your
>>>thoughts, it occurred to me that, like ham radio, the animal
>>>groups have also been declining over time. By Animal groups, I
>>>mean the Lions, Elks, Moose, and so-on are or seem to all be
>>>struggling to keep their numbers up. Don't know about the rotary
>>>and siroptimists, but I think that many people, especially young
>>>ones, has been getting into the social media stuff and don't feel
>>>the same need for direct interaction like meetings etc. Maybe
>>>this portends some major underlying social change because of
>>>technology, maybe even polarization, especially in the US. I
>>>belong to two ham clubs here. One, has a breakfast every fourth
>>>Saturday of the month which usually gets about 20 to 25 hams and
>>>their significant others, maybe some wannabees. The other club
>>>has a Friday evening meeting that usually has a tech lecture most
>>>months or auction a couple times a year. I have not gone to
>>>that usuY for lack of a reade but I think it's fairly well
>>>attended. I don't have a sense of the numbers in each club, but
>>>another local club seems to be cranking out new hams some of whom
>>>I have heard and talked too on VHF. Wish I had the secret
>>>solution for you, and us in general. I don't think free pizza
>>>and beer would even encourage folks for too long.
>>>Speaking of HF, I got my ALS600 fired up and am not using any
>>>antenna tuner in line since I found out the Ldg AT600 Pro II auto
>>>tuner is just plain Not Blind friendly, even LDG wrote me about
>>>that. Now I gotta return the thing to HRO hoping they will give
>>>me back most of the $338 I spent on it. Hope we can talk on HF,
>>>bands permitting, one of these days. I could barely hear Lloyd
>>>yesterday and called numerous times using the amp never to be
>>>heard. Kind of disappointing but 20 meters was pretty bad. Well
>>>enough for now, 73, Jim WA6EKS
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