I guess this is Off Topic(tm)
But I have to agree, I am seeing more of the CB'ers getting licensed and
showing up on 2m. Here in Denton we have lidiot that I have finally
given up on that just cannot figure out how to say his own callsign. He
chronically quick keys and cuts himself off.. Now I am a fair and
balanced elmer type and I have spend tons of time with this guy over the
phone and finally just with on-air elmering and he just doesn't get it.
So what do you do? Most of the old timers won't even talk to him
anymore. I guess the hope is that he will just go away.
I guess I am still waiting for the one that wires an echo mike to his
icom IC-27H..
Kris Kirby wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Nate Duehr wrote:
>> It's rampant. I'd easily estimate that 1/4 of our members don't really
>> "get" how a repeater works.
>>
>> "You're 20 over 9 here!"
>
> I think I've heard something similar on the air here; one station was
> doing the drawn-out calling that you'd do for a contest working a station
> in the mud over a repeater. I hope someone clues him in.. If I get a
> chance next time, I'll pull him off-line and chat with him.
> Self-policing... I know that I probably violate a lot of what I was
> taught, but there is something to using a little procedure; it makes
> things a little more professional, even if the professional radio
> operator is a endangered species.
>
--
Jay Urish W5GM
DCARA President ARRL Life Member
Denton County ARRL VEC
N5ERS VP/Trustee
Monitoring 1292.30Ghz PL-100.0 441.375 PL-88.5 and 444.850 PL-88.5
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