And folks, please, when you hijack a thread please please please change
the title.
73, Pete N4ZR
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On 5/5/2014 1:49 PM, Michael Coslo wrote:
I’ll make one comment before filtering this thread out. Because it has no place
in an RFI reflector.
We get and see the Amateur radio we want. I’m teaching new guys and gals about digital modes, many
of these people are young hams. I’m a VE, and we produce many more Hams every year in my area, and a
whole lot of them are pretty active. And no they aren’t all Technicians. I’ve taught classes
on soldering, homebrewing, antenna construction, and there are probably about 50 hams in our area running
homebrew antennas of my design that they built. Good people, Good Hams, and they are doing and growing the
hobby.
I’m working to make Amateur Radio better. Are you?
- 73 Mike N3LI -
On May 5, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Donald Chester <k4kyv@hotmail.com> wrote:
I ran into a thread on this very subject recently on another list. The gist of
the conversation was
that it is a different world to-day. We used to make "things" and use them but today
people BUY "things"
and use them. The generation that grew up in the great depression were pretty
good at fixing almost anything.
People, especially in rural areas did their own plumbing, carpentry, painting,
soldering, mixing concrete,
car and machinery repair, etc. Hams built their own equipment, often as not out
of necessity. To-day's trend
is for hams to just whip out the credit card to purchase the latest whiz-bang
miracle radio with all the bells and
whistles, purchase a commercially built dipole and string it up, plug in the
rig, and start talking. But
few young people even bother with that, since they can use the cell phone and
internet to communicate with
about anyone anywhere on the face of the planet free of charge without going to
all the trouble of getting
a licence and setting up a ham station. I have gone to neighbours' houses to
help with some kind of
problem ranging anywhere from RFI to starting a lawn mower, and found that they
had absolutely no hand tools on the
premises. Not even a hammer or screwdriver, so I had to go back home and fetch
my tool box.
To-day about half of all marriages end up in divorce. We have a generation or
more of boys and girls who
grow up with a single parent. Most of the time it is a female because the women
nearly always get custody of
the children. Many of the mothers do an excellent job raising their kids alone,
but the kids never saw their
father change a washer in the kitchen sink faucet or change a tire on their
car. The kids have little or no
exposure to anything mechanical or the use of simple hand tools as they grow
up, but they are experts at texting
and could tell you all about what's on Face book and Twitter and could teach a
lesson on the latest fashion in
clothing. Plus, people are conditioned to have limited attention span as a
result of a lifetime of watching
commercial TV with its constant interruptions for commercial ads.
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