[ARC5] Big/Heavy is Over

[Richard Nasti]

Dave:
The Voice of Eagles is a great title for such a book!
I sure would like to read it.

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> On Sep 17, 2018, at 10:50, Don Merz via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm current President of Pittsburgh Antique Radio Society and we too set up"recruiting" displays of radios and promo materials of stuff we are doing. This used to be a good tool for us. We'd get 3-4 signups at every hamfest. Lately we are down to one or none. And membership dropped to 137 from 155 last year. 
> 
> I blame it all on the President...
> 
> ....and a lack of interest. It's just not there. The most common request we get is "do you have someone who can fix the old radio my Grandpap used to listen to?" It's discouraging. And getting volunteers from within the membership to do stuff ain't no picnic neither. 
> 
> Ah well, I guess life moves on.
> Don Merz, N3RHT
> 
> 
> On Monday, September 17, 2018, 8:44:57 AM EDT, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> (Warm-up your "I'm Offended!"; you're about to need it.)
> 
> One of the reasons I stopped doing displays of mil-radio equipment at major hamfests is lack of any meaningful interest.  It's a lot of work getting a display together to go the whole 'fest with two or three questions, if you're lucky, and no one spending more then 30 seconds looking.  That, more than anything else, tells me "the bells are tolling."  I now work on my "goodies" for my own enjoyment and accept that "all good things..."  I also shelved a book which would have been titled: "The Voice of Eagles."  Creating a book is a massive effort and hardly worth it when maybe 10 people are going to read it.  
> 
> I feel confident that estimate is correct, because over the years, in several things I have written (and been told were useful; thank you kindly to those who said so), I've included an occasional "easter egg:" an obvious error included just to see if anyone is actually paying attention.  One of them is so in-your-face, I included it just to make the point.  Twenty years ago, a dozen people would have noted the error.  To this day, not ONE of these "easter eggs" has been commented upon; not even once.  That tells me all I need to know about the actual level of interest in the general community.  
> 
> Lots of people talk about what they're going to do "when they get around to it."  Few ever do anything significant at all.  And if those of us who claim a passion for these historic items won't take the time to heat a soldering iron, isn't it arrogant to assume we can convince a young person to do so?
> 
> Think I will still write about the work- writers are a bit egoist and compulsive about their vice ;-).  
> But our community is deep in its twilight.  "Gather ye rose buds while ye may."
> 
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