Yes lol.  


Barb K1EIR

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Steve Forst
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 3:23 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: if I can't have my hobby back, I don't want to live!

Perhaps not over dramatic, just under medicated.

73, Steve KW3A

On 6/24/2012 1:17 PM, Buddy Brannan wrote:
> Wah wah wah wah. You're not the only guy to ever operate from an = 
> apartment. Think you've got it tough? What about all those hams in = 
> Tokyo? And, apparently you *don't* read QST, because, sad to say, 
> there = are lots of hams who live in areas where, for various reasons, 
> they = can't put up big antennas. Not just apartments, but condos and 
> homes in = deed-restricted areas. There's lots of information on 
> stealth operating = if you care to look for it. Except whining is 
> easier, right? If I can't = have my hobby, I on't want to 
> live=85overdramatic muh?=20
> --
> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
>
>
>
> On Jun 24, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Steve<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>
>> Oh, spare us, Trippy.  What would be the point of a contest if it 
>> were =
> over=20
>> VOIP?
>> ----- Original Message -----=20
>> From: Harry Brown
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 4:40 AM
>> Subject: if I can't have my hobby back, I don't want to live!
>> =20
>> =20
>> Hi all,
>> Well, here's where we are in getting me on echo link and hf remote 
>> =3D bases.
>> Were not!
>> First, for the 3rd time, my friend, Rick, wo8m, scanned and faxed my 
>> =3D=
>
>> license to the folks at echo link.
>> It said my license is unreadable, so, no validation!
>> Then, a firewall test failure!
>> Here's what the test said.
>> "Windows XP Service Pack 3
>> Local IP address: 192.168.1.78
>> Firewall Test Results: FAIL
>> The test successfully connected to the EchoLink server on TCP port =
> 5200. =3D
>> This means that your system's TCP configuration is correct for use =
> with =3D
>> EchoLink.
>> The tester did not receive a response for some of the UDP tests.  If 
>> =
> you =3D
>> have a router or firewall installed, be sure its Port Forwarding =
> feature =3D
>> is correctly set. (See Help for details.)"
>> Trippy's comment, where in the heck do I go on the echolink web site? 
>> =
> =3D
>> I'll try to find the help, but who knows!
>> Now, back to the results.
>> "If you have Internet security software installed, be sure it is =3D 
>> configured to allow EchoLink to access the Internet.
>> There appears to be a router between this computer and the Internet.  
>> =
> A =3D
>> router normally requires special configuration for use with EchoLink."
>> Folks, that's a crock of crap, because I have no router, just a dsl 
>> =3D modem, what are they drinking?
>> For more information, click the Help button above, or see the 
>> Firewall =
> =3D
>> Solutions page on the EchoLink Web site.
>> What a disaster this is.
>> Ya know folks, all is nightmare could be prevented if they just let 
>> =3D contests go on cq100, God, all this could be prevented, all of 
>> it. All =
> =3D
>> these people who have nice yards, and they can get on hf, and those 
>> of =
> =3D
>> us who live in places where we can't, like apartments, and condos, =
> what =3D
>> a heck of a mess! And what bugs me the most is, the ARRL, witch I 
>> will =
> =3D
>> not join, because people like me, who are in the minority.  The ARRL, 
>> =
> =3D
>> and most hams, don't give a crap. None of them think about this =3D 
>> situation, none of them. What will they do, when they can no longer =
> live =3D
>> where they have a yard to put up antennas?
>> This hobby is diing, because of these kind of things, and the =
> attitudes. =3D
>> If they would only put contests on cq100, (all contests), then I =3D 
>> wouldn't be going through all this. The powers that are intrenched, =
> just =3D
>> think contests should be on hf, well, really, radio only!
>> Well, Monday night, on that balcony, will decide what's gonna happen 
>> =3D=
>
>> with my ham future. If that tuner does what it's suppose to do, 
>> great, =
> =3D
>> if not, what can I say, but cq100, for the rest of my life, and even 
>> =3D=
>
>> that's declining, down hill. People are leaving in droves, the ham =
> rules =3D
>> aren't being enforced.
>> It's killing me folks. You might think I'm over dramatic, but if I =
> can't =3D
>> have my hobby back, I don't need to live.
>> There's nothing worse than a life, with your hobbies taken away from 
>> =
> ya. =3D
>> I know hams in this town, right now, who cannot get on the air, many 
>> =3D=
>
>> many of them. I ask "why", and they say, "Trippy, I can't put up =3D 
>> antennas where I live.
>> " Or, "I'm too old to climb towers, and string wires, and all that 
>> =3D stuff, and nobody has time. And 99% of the hams in this country 
>> could =
> =3D
>> care less, and they won't let ham radio come to cq100, where we don't 
>> =
> =3D
>> have firewall issues, port forwarding issues, issues with skype, =
> issues =3D
>> with hf remote base software. But we do have the bands, the =
> frequencies. =3D
>> Now, all we need is, all the hams to come over there, and we'll have 
>> =3D=
>
>> everything we have on hf, and no antennas that you can't put up, =
> either =3D
>> because of where you live, or, because you're too old to do all this 
>> =3D=
>
>> antenna stuff, and your body and/or mind, won't let you any more.
>> I feel for sister Alverna, wa0sgj, in Rochester, Mn, who can't get on 
>> =
> =3D
>> the air, because no hams in that city will go over there and get her 
>> =
> on =3D
>> the air., I wish I could get her on the fricken air myself, but I =
> can't, =3D
>> but I feel for her, she's just another casualty.
>> I'd love you to send my email to ARRL, you have, for sure, my =3D 
>> permission. They have no idea about those of us out here, and what =
> they =3D
>> either don't care to see, or, what they fail to see is, in the future 
>> =
> =3D
>> they will be in the same situation as people like me are in. We will 
>> =
> all =3D
>> get older, we will all be where we can't put up antennas, due to 
>> space =
> =3D
>> limits, or, our bodies and/or minds will fail.
>> Trippy, ac8s=20
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>
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