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[Kelly Taylor]

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 at 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.
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>> On Jun 27, 2019, at 3:46 AM, Bryan Fields <Bryan at 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
>> -- 
>> Bryan Fields
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