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Re: [TowerTalk] FCP vs On ground.txt

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] FCP vs On ground.txt
From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <lists@subich.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:08:58 -0500
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On 2022-01-21 2:48 PM, Jim Brown wrote:

And most of what I post online is aimed at helping folks learn. The disappointing thing is when I do that, questioners seem to post new questions suggesting they didn't bother to study either what I (or others) had written on the reflector, or what I'd posted links to on
my website, some of which I'd spent weeks or months learning and
writing about.

How true!  Amateur Radio has become infected with the same "entitlement
mentality" that is so common in society, particularly younger members
of society.  I don't want to count the number if times I have posted
references to User Manuals, software help files, software WiKis, FAQs,
etc. only to hear "I don't have time to read <pick the reference>,
just tell me what to do".

<you can guess what I *WANT* to tell them to do <G>!>

73,

   ... Joe, W4TV


On 2022-01-21 2:48 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 1/21/2022 11:19 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
Thankfully for any of us that actually consider ham radio to be a technical hobby instead of just a wireless chat room, not everyone here shares your perspective.

YES!  Much of the ARRL Handbook is tutorial material. Indeed, I'd wager that most if not all of the teams that have put us in space first learned electronics and radio from the Handbook.

And most of what I post online is aimed at helping folks learn. The disappointing thing is when I do that, questioners seem to post new questions suggesting they didn't bother to study either what I (or others) had written on the reflector, or what I'd posted links to on my website, some of which I'd spent weeks or months learning and writing about.

73, Jim K9YC



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