[CW] How to destroy Amateur Radio

[Pedro J. Santa]

Mike:

Your text included the phrase: "That way they...will become discouraged and 
quit the hobby".

Good grief! Isn't that happenning already?

73 Pedro KP3X..


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Hyder -N4NT-" <mike.hyder.n4nt at charter.net>
To: "Donald Chester" <k4kyv at hotmail.com>; <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] Where are all the 80 meter CW ops?


> How to destroy Amateur Radio:
>
> Give the hams additional frequency bands.
>
> That way they will be so spread out they'll never find one another, will
> become discouraged and quit the hobby.
>
> 73, Mike N4NT -- about to crank up on 3,530± kc.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Donald Chester" <k4kyv at hotmail.com>
> To: <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 5:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [CW] Where are all the 80 meter CW ops?
>
>
>
>
>>Back when I was a Novice (1976), I could scare up
>>80m Novice band QSOs during daylight (at least in
>>winter), even in mid-afternoon.
>>
>>I can remember scanning across the 80m General/Extra
>>CW segment with my Heathkit Mohawk on a Saturday
>>morning and hearing wall-to-wall roundtables. This
>>was in about 1975.
>>
>>These days, 80m CW activity is thin on the ground,
>>even in winter.
>
> Use it or lose it!
>
> How can we justify reserving 50% of the band for cw and digital modes if 
> the
> activity is not there?
>
> Besides the amateur phone operators, I suspect there are non-amateur
> interests drooling over all those unused frequencies on 80m
>
> Don K4KYV.
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