[CQ-Contest] IRLP Contest

[Cqtestk4xs@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/16/05 10:47:52 PM Greenwich Standard Time, 
craig.n7or at 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.

The sad truth is, that most of the local guys are pretty content carrying 
their ham shacks on their belts.  Perhaps there will be a change in attitude when 
the FCC gives them HF privileges..the same ones they took away from me in the 
60s with incentive licensing, the same ones I had to upgrade to 20 WPM for.  
Maybe it's different in other areas, but in the Tampa Bay area that's the way 
it is.

Bill  K4XS