Subj : Some New Rules Going into
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Andre
Date : Sat Feb 12 2022 18:17:58

  Re: Some New Rules Going into
  By: Daryl Stout to Andre on Fri Feb 11 2022 06:16 am

 DS> For these "net hoppers", there is no prize, bonus, award, certificate,
 DS> etc. for checking into x number of nets in a day. I have to wonder if
 DS> they have a life outside of ham radio. Indeed, in the Excel Net List
 DS> spreadsheets, I noted on one day six nets meeting at the same time!!

A lot of guys just seem to need a social outlet. At one club I used to be in, I'd open the meeting with intros and a question, "What have you done with ham radio or electronics this past week?"

Some of the guys literally never did anything other than attend that weekly meeting and maintain thier license renewal fee. Others didn't care anything about operating, learning, teaching others, whatever. They just wanted to get together with people they knew.

It's a big hobby, so I don't expect everyone to like the same things. But we ARRL, and maybe ham radio, is going to slowly die because they're more interested in keeping old men paying fees than they are in getting people under 30 interested in radio.

I know it's an unpleasant thing to say, but I'm so jaded about it all that I'm just not going to bother putting much effort into the radio community until the 70+ crew passes on.


- Andre

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