> In a message dated 3/16/05 10:47:52 PM Greenwich Standard
> Time, craig.n7or@gmail.com writes:
> The real truth seems to be that you really don't want any
> newcomers. Keep ridiculing them, calling them "shack-on-a-belt" guys.
> We do want them. Whenever I get in my truck and hit the
> local repeater I try to talk up contesting and HF in general.
> I am pretty much met with apathy and an attitude that it is
> better to sit and wallow on a 2 meter repeater than it is to
> upgrade and get on HF or contest.
>
Hey, Bill, at least you have some repeater activity there. I'm continually
amazed to find Houston's repeater frequencies a vast wasteland of silence.
Even during rush hour, you're lucky if you can find more than 2 or 3
repeaters in use. And this is a city of over 2.1 million (Houston
Metropolitan Area = ~5 Million) with an estimated ham population of over
4,000.
Also, I stand corrected about IRLP being only accessible via radio. I guess
technology has moved on since I last worked that 'mode' a year or two
ago--established and conducted an astronaut interview by Toronto Challenger
Center children).
73,
Dale, kg5u
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