Zach, I may be wrong, but I believe what you described is actually against
FCC regulations, and you could report them to the FCC. I doubt if it would
do any good, but it might make you feel better knowing that you at least did
something. 

Ron, K8HSY

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Zach Shifflett
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 1:24 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: terrible behavior on two meter repeater: you guys won't believe
this

Hi all,
Disclaimer: if you're not in the mood to read a long winded rant, just
delete this message and I'll totally understand.  There's just something
that happened tonight that I have to get off my chest.
All right, here goes:
So tonight, I've been up sitting in my office reading a book with my radio
on.
There are these two guys who get on late on a local repeater most weekends.
They're not the most likable of characters at the best of times, but tonight
they were just completely beyond all sense of propriety.
First off, they were talking about politics.
I know this isn't like a cardinal sin or anything, though personally I try
to stay away from politics on the air.
So these guys are talking about politics for a while, and it just devolves
into an all out racist, ignorant, unbelievable rage fest.
These folks were going on about how Obama is just in the white house to take
revenge on white people, and how the government is full of terrorist
democrats who got into politics just so they could take innocent people's
money and use it to abort babies and take our guns away.
They went so far as to say that the president is a peace of trash who hasn't
gotten over the fact that black people used to be slaves, and just wants to
destroy America.
Now, while I don't agree with that thesis, I know there are people out there
who do, and it's a free country, so you can have whatever opinion you want
and it's fine with me.  What really angers me is how these guys are getting
so pissed off on the radio that they're screaming and ranting nonsensically
for hours and hours over the air.
This kind of thing reflects poorly on the ham community as a whole, and just
seems like terrible manners.
And the sad thing is that isn't even the worst of it.
There's a repeater in another town about 20 miles away that has a net every
night that I frequent.
You seriously couldn't find a better group of guys than that are on this
net.

So these two guys who had just finished ranting about politics finally stop,
and the one guy says to the other, "so yeah, how bout that pathetic bunch of
idiots who hang out on the .825 machine every night..." and so on and so on.
Then, they started in on talking shit and laughing at one of the guys on the
net, who not only did they name in person over the air, but is another blind
ham.
I think this particular ham they're talking about, who is also the blind
ham, might have a minor intellectual disability or something, as sometimes
he can be a little hard to understand, but said ham is one of the nicest
guys on the net, and always has a good word for everybody he talks to.
So here are these guys, who aren't even in the local club or anything, never
to my knowledge volunteer or do anything with any of the ham outfits in the
area, and they're talking for 2 straight hours on the open air and laughing
at other hams, calling them out by name, who haven't even done anything
wrong.
It took every ounce of self-restraint I could manage not to get on the
repeater, but I knew doing that would just feed the fire.
Ok, that's it. Thanks for listening.
I just had to get this out there.  I was literally so pissed off my hands
were shaking.
73,
Zach, kk4ruz