Subj : Re: Various Things To : Daryl Stout From : Brian Rogers Date : Fri Jun 04 2021 18:31:00 Daryl; -=> Daryl Stout wrote to Brian Rogers <=- DS> Well, even when the local club has RF only (and I've been licensed 30 DS> years, not starting VoIP use until 2006), it was extremely difficult DS> getting folks to be Net Control, a club officer, or a worker at a DS> hamfest. Everyone wants the glory and benefits, but no one wants the DS> gall and the work. I think a good part of it comes from the lack of support from Newington. They want nothing more but for packet to totally vanish! They've basically squashed Amateur TV. Tis a shame. We used to have a net on Mondays that had a repeater on our local Channel 61's tower and they'd have weekly contests: Who could find the sexiest nudie and cover her up with their callsign in the most provocative way(s)... *that* was a fun net Look up ham in Websters: ham (adj): Horny aged men You're right though, so many now a day just want to be lemmings and have everything given to them on a silver 802.11 dish. Hell now a day NO CW is required testing! I took the old CW tests. DS> Arkansas has quite a bit of hills and some mountains. Your women don't count.. braggar DS> Years ago, DS> there was a hamfest held on top of one of the mountains...but it was a DS> bear trying to get to and from there. I was in the woods of New Hampshire past few days... almost had a bear get me for breakfast! On 2 days he walked right past my window while I was in bed. DS> The thing about analog, if someone is kerchunking, there's no way to DS> identify them. We had problems with that for years (and that may still DS> be the case today), of an interfering individual who was mobile, so the DS> fox hunters couldn't get a fix on him. With digital, the callsign shows DS> up. What I don't get is, why all of a sudden are these issues when they weren't 10 years ago? Answer: technology made us L A Z Y. Half the fun of radio is working for that contact... not having it handed to you. The one TXing would insure he had the best SWR etc while the receiving station did what they could to pull the signal out of the mud. Now that is basically gone. I won't get into what it's doing to the band plan. DS> There are a ton of repeaters that are rarely used...maybe during DS> nets, and otherwise, they're dead as a doornail. I think in the DS> Arklatex, Arklamiss, and MidSouth, all of the frequencies for 2 meters, DS> 1.25 meters, and 70 centimeters, are taken. Sounds very similar to here to be brutally honest. DS> Maybe those with the tube type radios might be able to communicate, DS> but not much else. Talk about "Back To The Stone Age"...all that comes DS> to mind is the episode of "The Flintstones", with the intercom in the DS> doctor's office, with a parrot flying back and forth with the message. Ahh but did it work? Y/n Analog also has a farther carrier distance than digital does. DS> That's like the one in church where the woman tells her husband DS> "I just let a silent but deadly fart!! What should I do??!!". He DS> curtly replies "Change the batteries in your hearing aid". DS> Another deal has this elderly couple sitting on this couch, and DS> the old man says "My butt's asleep"...and his wife says "Yeah, I DS> can hear it snoring". In both cases was the wife Whoopie (cushion) Goldberg? .... Old sculptors never die, they just lose their marbles. --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52 þ Synchronet þ SBBS - Carnage! *73 de N1URO* bbs.n1uro.com:2300 .