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 <chacuff@cableone.net> wrote:
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> 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, fortra@siol.net 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: topband@contesting.com
>> 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
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