[AMRadio] Ham Radio Growing in the Age of Twitter

Thu Apr 8 13:13:55 EDT 2010

I almost did not comment David, but was not sure if you ment all hams of 
just "us'  if just us I am not surprised even a little, the guys on AM 
typically have a good idea of what they are doing and that is a major reason 
why I work AM.  ten was open a bit yesterday and I worked a few 
stations.(SSB)  the conversations were short ( not on my end) and sounded 
like CB jargon.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Knepper" <collinsradio at comcast.net>
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> Bernie, I should have been more explicit in my reference to "like hams." 
> I
> was referring to the folks like us that enjoy "old-time radio," and not to
> the entire universe of hams.
>
> Thank you for this excellent point and allowing me to clarify my comments.
>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bernie Doran" <qedconsultants at embarqmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service"
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> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 9:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Ham Radio Growing in the Age of Twitter
>
>
>> HI Dave: not to throw water on you premise, but the sample size is far 
>> too
>> small and the group sampled is not representative of the population. My
>> guess is that the true range is less than 50% for all licensed hams,
>> probably much less!  I would wager 50% are not even active.  Bernie W8RPW
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "David Knepper" <collinsradio at comcast.net>
>> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service"
>> <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 8:21 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Ham Radio Growing in the Age of Twitter
>>
>>
>>> Based on my sample size of 43 that results indicate that 99 percent
>>> responded affirmatively to each of the statements in the first survey. 
>>> I
>>> concluded that there is a high likelihood that the entire populations of
>>> like hams would express a similar response rate at a 95 percent
>>> confidence
>>> level.
>>>
>>> Thank you to all those that participated in this survey.
>>>
>>> David Knepper, W3ST/W3CRA
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>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: <sbjohnston at aol.com>
>>> To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 8:42 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Ham Radio Growing in the Age of Twitter
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you own a soldering iron?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes ___X___  No _______  Many, I've lost count.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you own a roll of solder?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes ____X__  No _______ Many, I've been stockpiling lead-tin solder.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the last 30 days, did you solder anything that was related to
>>>> amateur
>>>>> radio equipment?
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes ___X___  No _______ Many - repair and building electronic stuff
>>>> is a passion of mine.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Steve WD8DAS
>>>>
>>>> sbjohnston at aol.com
>>>> http://www.wd8das.net/
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