I guess that about sums it up from an intelligent person. Ron we took the hard
to swallow pill a few times in our careers. Like you mentioned, incentive
licensing and the dropping of the code when we did 20WPM the hard way. I
swallowed the pill and moved forward so did many of us but then again we always
can look back on our roots and be proud.
-----Original Message-----
From: GALE STEWARD via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
To: Topband@Contesting. Com <topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Fri, Jan 15, 2016 5:03 pm
Subject: Re: Topband: RHR
I'm with Ron one this. I don't care in the slightest what someone else uses to
work a station. If it's legal, go for it. I worked my 146 on Topband from my
own QTH. My station is always going forward with improvements and continues to
gradually get better.And this argument that "this will be the end of ham radio
as we know it", I've been hearing that tired phrase since the late 60's. Memory
keyers, incentive licensing, computers & packet radio, skimmers, etc. have all
been touted as going to "ruin" ham radio. I'm on the air every day and still
having fun, after 53 years. I don't think it been ruined at all. It has
changed, just like everything else. I think that a lot of the new technology is
great.My DXCC is not diminished in the slightest (in my mind) by whatever
equipment setup someone else used to work a new one. More power to them.My 2
cents...73, Stew K3ND From: Ron Spencer <ron.e.spencer@gmail.com> To:
"Topband@Contesting. Com" <topband@contesting.com> Sent: Fri
day, January 15, 2016 1:07 PM Subject: Topband: RHR I don't get it. WHY do
you care? How does what the operators that usethem do affect you? How does it
affect your ability to work astation? What possible difference does it make in
how you use thishobby? If the operators beat you in a contest so what? YOU know
whatyou did and how you did it and should take pride in YOUR success.For me,
this is a HOBBY. It should be fun! I find enjoyment in myoperating successes.
If someone with a better station, like W8JI orW4ZV, work DX I can't hear I
don't get upset with them. I wonder how Ican improve MY station to be
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