David, I have to disagree with your conclusion. Your survey was taken within a unique subset of the general population of licensed hams. The mere fact that a ham is a member of this email group almost makes it a given that they were born with a soldering iron in one hand and a roll of Ersin Multicore in the other, and have plated their lungs with lead/tin smoke since before they could walk. I'm actually surprised that you didn't get 100% "YES' response to all three questions.
However, if you gave this same survey to a group of hams from the "general population", I believe the results would be much different. Regrettably, the majority of hams these days are simply appliance operators, with little or no interest in or knowledge of, homebrew and DIY. At a recent club meeting, another ham and I gave a presentation on a couple of coil-loaded 160m dipoles we'd built. Of a group of 22 or 23, there were only 2 hams who were really interested in the process and the product. Most of the rest have no interest in ever getting off the local 2m repeater. I wish it was different, but those of us who like to build, modify and repair are in a very small minority of licensed hams. 73, ldb -- Larry D. Barr, K5WLF PIO, ARRL NTX District 3 SKYWARN Spotter/Net Control Erath County (TX) ARES AEC Erath County (TX) RACES CLO (Alt) Erath County (TX) Emergency Management Website: http://www.rebelwolf.com/ Blog: http://www.rebelwolf.com/blog/ -------Original Message------- From: David Knepper To: Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Ham Radio Growing in the Age of Twitter Sent: 08 Apr '10 06:21 Based on my sample size of 43 that results indicate that 99 percent responded affirmatively to each of the statements in the first survey. I concluded that there is a high likelihood that the entire populations of like hams would express a similar response rate at a 95 percent confidence level. Thank you to all those that participated in this survey. David Knepper, W3ST/W3CRA Publisher of the Collins Journal Secretary of the Collins Radio Association www.collinsra.com Join today Nets: 14.263 Mhz, 1900Z, Sundays 3.805 Mhz, 2300Z, Mondays ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
