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[Glenn Pritchard]

Agree,
I did field day this year and had a blast! It has been a decade or more
since I participated but we made some nice contacts, ten meters opened for
bit here on Vancouver Island and so did 15.
Whatever a person does that makes him or her enjoy the hobby then go for it.
Life is way too short to be a grump.

Glenn, VA7UO
Campbell River

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 12:05 PM Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:

> WOW-not cool Bryan (whatever your callsign is) Bryan at bryanfields.net
> <mailto:Bryan%40bryanfields.net>
>
>
>
> I'd like to think that Ham Radio has enough avenues to keep most everyone
> happy. I've tried a good portion of them myself.
>
> Although I will not go around pretending to understand how some folks find
> certain aspects of the hobby interesting or satisfying, I certainly don't
> think they are worthless.  Certainly they are worthy TO THEM.
>
> (and good on them for it, actually)
>
>
>
> GEEZ !
>
>
>
> Mike VE9AA ..contester, dxer, HF mobiler, Towertalk reflector learner
> ,CWer,
> VHFer, antenna builder ,QRPer, etc..
>
> ====================
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 727-409-1194 - Voice
>
> http://bryanfields.net
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>
>
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
>
> Keswick Ridge, NB
>
>
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