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KB2VXA > RADIO 24.09.16 10:35l 73 Lines 3645 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: EI2GYB > silent treatment
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From: KB2VXA@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : RADIO@WW
Hi Steve and all,
VERY WELL SAID! The very first FCC rule "Purpose of Amateur Radio" concludes
with the phrase "To promote international good will." In a nut shell, to
accomplish this an Amateur must be polite and courteous among other things
because he represents his country on the air, an ambassador of good will. So
how can one be an ambassador of good will by snubbing another Amateur for any
reason? Age and/or newly licensed is certainly no reason! For what it's
worth, during Operation Desert Storm the Army MARS station at Fort Monmouth,
NJ was very busy on a frequency just outside the 20M band conducting phone
patches between servicemen amd their families back home. Meanwhile I was
listening around on 20 and what I heard was shameful, Amateurs in the Middle
East shouting insults at each other in Farsi, politics on the radio at its
worst!
Now to the point, that 15 year old prefering 2M because he gets ignored on
HF. I can see why, a generally more advanced class looking down their noses
at a lower class, the great divide of society. Then there's an extention of
that superior attitude, "He's just a kid, what does HE know?" Well guess
what, I experienced that snooty upper class attitude myself and I'm WAY older
than 15 and had MANY YEARS of knowledge and experience in the field of radio
electronics under my belt before I sat for my test, scored 100% in 15
minutes. Then came the code vs. no code war, more ignorance of why knowing
Morse at a speed was required for a given band and is no longer needed nor
required. Yeah, more class warfare, so what makes you think you're better
than someone else? HUH?
Now we get around to another personal experience, operating on 2M is much
more relaxed and casual than HF, so the kid found a home there, I did and I
didn't. One reason why I avoid repeaters is they usually have their own
politics and some have an elite inner circle that thinks it has an exclusive
right to the repeater. One club owned 2M repeater has a long standing
reputation and is known as "the sewer pipe repeater" where they among other
things ignore mobiles passing through. The same club has a 1.25M repeater
with a tight inner circle known as "the 220 elite" that thinks it's theirs
exclusively and tries to keep it a secret. A friend and myself used it
several times each day just to piss them off.
I found out where the REAL 2M hams hang out, operating SSB down near the
bottom of the band. Real hams because they operate a bit more formally with
HF protocol and they aren't the lids found on repeaters. With FM being the
most power hungry mode, SSB and CW naturally have a much greater range, I've
covered distances with 5&9 direct signals that few repeaters can match. There
is one unfortunate downside, unless there's a band opening it's hard to find
anybody there. Then when there is I often found myself under a dog pile. (;->)
Pardon my running off at the keys, but I just had to get it all out in the
open.
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"New Jersey, the most American of all states. It has everything from
wilderness to the Mafia. All the great things and all the worst,
like Route 22."
Jean Shepherd K2ORS (SK) & WOR radio personality
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 24-Sep-2016 at 09:14 GMT
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