I simply can’t think of a more worthless pursuit in ham radio than “insert your
favourite ham activity here.”
Now it sounds a little petty, doesn’t it? Ham radio’s wide variety of activity
means there’s something for everyone. I don’t get the attraction of FT8 — I
understand the technology and celebrate its weak-signal ability, but I just
don’t see it as ‘fun' at all — can take or leave VHF and UHF FM and never
really got into foxhunting. I don’t think anyone can really call themselves a
DXer if they’ve ever uttered the words, “When last heard, you were…"
But I don’t dismiss any as ‘worthless.’
Live and let live.
73, kelly, ve4xt
> On Jun 27, 2019, at 5:17 AM, john nistico <electric911inc@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bryan our hobby has something for all that is why we do it. Contesting helps
> keep skills sharp when operating in adverse conditions. I wish more operators
> had contest experience during the 9-11 operations. Some of those belt loop
> hams were awful under pressure.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jun 27, 2019, at 3:46 AM, Bryan Fields <Bryan@bryanfields.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 6/26/19 2:58 PM, N4ZR wrote:
>>> Yup, I remember when you would get chastised for raising non-contest
>>> topics on contesting.com - so we had to resort to asking about
>>> "contesting towers" "and contesting antennas"
>>
>> I simply can't think of a more worthless pursuit in ham radio than
>> contesting.
>> Even showed up to field day to get a 5.9 GHz radio link going, and found out
>> they can't count it as a "contact" for points. But hey, we got ARRL
>> "radiograms", half the length of a tweet and twice as pointless!
>>
>> I've been involved in a few towers going up one even for ham radio, and I
>> think the lowest we ever made it was a 52 MHz remote receiver for an repeater
>> input. I'd love to ask that; "I have a question about my contesting
>> propagation beacon that has a repeat function too", lolz.
>>
>> 73's
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