Subj : Re: Computers
To   : Bob Worm
From : tenser
Date : Thu Aug 08 2024 19:52:49

On 04 Aug 2024 at 10:16p, Bob Worm pondered and said...
 
 BW>   Re: Re: Computers
 BW>   By: tenser to Bob Worm on Mon Aug 05 2024 00:28:15
 BW> 
 BW>  > Heh, that's true.  "And now, I'd like to discuss amateur
 BW>  > radio...."
 BW> 
 BW> Heha - this one hits home. I got my Amateur Radio license during
 BW> lockdown and upgraded it to the middle tier, but for every lovely
 BW> helpful person I ran into on that journey there was another, obnoxious
 BW> one who looked down on anyone who had the audacity to be trying to learn
 BW> the hobby rather than a multi-decade veteran with thousands invested in
 BW> kit.

Hear, hear.  Also, the emphasis on HF as the end-all, be-all
of the hobby.  "Why aren't people upgrading?!"  When I suggest
that people ask new hams why they don't upgrade, they just
look at me funny.  It's like a completely foreign concept to
them or something.

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