Cecil, I’m just shy of 62 and agree with you 100 percent!
73, Bob AA6VB Robert L. Chortek > On Jan 11, 2020, at 8:55 AM, Cecil <[email protected]> wrote: > > [External Email] > > That’s all fine and good but that’s clinging to the assumption that these are > mindless younger hams that at some point will get bored with the digital > stuff, drop out of the hobby and fade away. > > Actually most of these folks are just adding the digital modes to their tool > bags in their quest to work more DX...and aren’t the younger crowd for the > most part either. > > I’m 63, been a ham since the early 70s, I’ll work CW, RTTY, SSB and the > digital modes, where ever the fun takes me. > > So guys like me aren’t going away bored we’re just adapting as time passes. > > One thing we won’t do is sit around and be poked and prodded and belittled > for it by a group of narrow minded individuals who call themselves gentlemen. > > We will move forward... > > Cecil > K5DL > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Jan 11, 2020, at 10:31 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hi Roger, >> >> yeah, you are my man..could not be >> said better.. >> >> Nermin S58DX >> >> -----Izvorno sporočilo----- From: Roger Kennedy >> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2020 3:32 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Topband: New Modes, Systems, etc >> >> >> It's easy to appreciate why many people - who are passionate about the hobby >> - get upset about some of the things they see as being very negative to the >> hobby. >> >> Here in Britain there were LOTS of well-respected Amateurs who were actively >> involved in Jamming the VHF Repeaters when they first came on the air in the >> 1970s. I would never have done such a thing, but I appreciated why those >> people were concerned about it having a negative effect on the hobby. >> People could now not bother to put up a decent antenna for 2m, yet work >> stations 50 miles away. >> >> However, most new amateurs that did that very quickly got bored with the >> hobby, as there was no sense of achievement, no reason to self-improve . . . >> and disappeared off the air. Those that got the satisfaction of working >> stations further away through their own efforts were usually the ones that >> sustained interest in the hobby. >> >> (It's interesting that there is almost NO activity on the various Repeaters >> here in Britain these days . . . which kind of confirms my point!) >> >> I think it's the same logic that many of us apply to the computer-based >> modes/protocols . . . that there is no skill involved, and so no real sense >> of achievement, like there is when puling a really weak DX station out of >> the noise . . . with the result that those people will very soon lose >> interest in the hobby. >> >> So those of you who are so keen on them, please at least understand our >> motives . . . it's because of our passion for the hobby that we are against >> these computer-based modes . . . in the same way as I personally am against >> VHF Repeaters or accessing remote Transmitting or even Receiving sites. >> >> Roger G3YRO >> >> _________________ >> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector >> _________________ >> Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
