Subj : this echo
To   : Roy Witt
From : Steve Bainbridge
Date : Sun May 20 2001 06:21 am

Hi Roy


 SB>>>> meaning no disrespect to anyone, but apart from the solar reports,
 SB>>>> there ain't much else in this echo. I think it maybe time to
 SB>>>> consider dropping it from my system

 >>> You get out of this echo what you put into it, just like
 >>> any other echo.

 SB>> This is very true, however, no one seems to putting anything in, do
 SB>> they ?.

 > Nope.  Not that they haven't in the past, just not much
 > interest for radio
 > in fidonet these days.  There used to be all kinds of
Seems there is not much interest in Radio period.
 > activity, but as the
 > hobby gets less and less people in it, so will the echo
 > activity.  At the
 > moment, there are at least 7 radio oriented echoes in
 > distribution;

 > AMATEUR_RADIO .......... "AMATEUR RADIO / HAM RADIO"
 > HAM .................... "Amateur Radio Interest"
 > HAM-SALE ............... "Ham Radio equipment sale, swap
 > and buy"
 > HAM_REQ ................ "Amateur Radio File
 > Announcements & File
 >                          Requests"
 > HAM_TECH ............... "Amateur(HAM) Radio TECHnical
 > Conference"
 > RADIO_HOBBY-ALL ........ "ALL HOBBY RADIO: Low Power FM,
 > CB, Scanners,
 >                          Shortwave"
 > SCANRADIO .............. "INTERNATIONAL VHF-UHF SCANNER
 > RADIO-RECEIVER
 >                          CONFERENCE"

 > Most of which see about the same traffic from the same
 > participants as
 > this echo does.  Some of those above haven't s
This is true . I take the UK radio amateur usenet mail, and it mainly contains 
flames ect, very little to do with AR.
 > activity for months.

 SB>>  It would be an idea if maybe some of the users did a profile
 SB>> of the gear they use, the bands and times, in UTC, they are on the
 SB>> air.

 > I don't know if any of us are on HF anymore.  My Kenwood
 > TS620 hasn't
 > been turned on in ages.  I do have a ten meter rig that I
 > turn on once
 > in a while. Nothing to get excited about there.  I used
 > to be quite active
 > on UHF.
Well there you go. Tis time to fire it up again


Steve

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