Topband: New Modes, Systems, etc

[Cecil]

That’s all fine and good but that’s clinging to the assumption that these are mindless younger hams that at some point will get bored with the digital stuff, drop out of the hobby and fade away. 

Actually most of these folks are just adding the digital modes to their tool bags in their quest to work more DX...and aren’t the younger crowd for the most part either. 

I’m 63, been a ham since the early 70s, I’ll work CW, RTTY, SSB and the digital modes, where ever the fun takes me.

So guys like me aren’t going away bored we’re just adapting as time passes.

One thing we won’t do is sit around and be poked and prodded and belittled for it by a group of narrow minded individuals who call themselves gentlemen. 

We will move forward...

Cecil
K5DL

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> On Jan 11, 2020, at 10:31 AM, fortra at siol.net wrote:
> 
> Hi Roger,
> 
> yeah, you are my man..could not be
> said better..
> 
> Nermin S58DX
> 
> -----Izvorno sporočilo----- From: Roger Kennedy
> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2020 3:32 PM
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Topband: New Modes, Systems, etc
> 
> 
> It's easy to appreciate why many people - who are passionate about the hobby
> - get upset about some of the things they see as being very negative to the
> hobby.
> 
> Here in Britain there were LOTS of well-respected Amateurs who were actively
> involved in Jamming the VHF Repeaters when they first came on the air in the
> 1970s. I would never have done such a thing, but I appreciated why those
> people were concerned about it having a negative effect on the hobby.
> People could now not bother to put up a decent antenna for 2m, yet work
> stations 50 miles away.
> 
> However, most new amateurs that did that very quickly got bored with the
> hobby, as there was no sense of achievement, no reason to self-improve . . .
> and disappeared off the air.  Those that got the satisfaction of working
> stations further away through their own efforts were usually the ones that
> sustained interest in the hobby.
> 
> (It's interesting that there is almost NO activity on the various Repeaters
> here in Britain these days . . . which kind of confirms my point!)
> 
> I think it's the same logic that many of us apply to the computer-based
> modes/protocols . . . that there is no skill involved, and so no real sense
> of achievement, like there is when puling a really weak DX station out of
> the noise . . . with the result that those people will very soon lose
> interest in the hobby.
> 
> So those of you who are so keen on them, please at least understand our
> motives . . . it's because of our passion for the hobby that we are against
> these computer-based modes . . . in the same way as I personally am against
> VHF Repeaters or accessing remote Transmitting or even Receiving sites.
> 
> Roger G3YRO
> 
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