[Elecraft] An interested link

[Grant Youngman]

On Sep 27, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Brett Gazdzinski wrote:

> I don't understand why some people like to limit other peoples  
> activity, or
> choices.

Because, like everything else, ham radio is "tribal".  And we always  
want to limit other's activities (ham radio, architectural committees,  
political parties, religions -- all the tribes we belong to have  
something to say about kicking the other guy.

> It seems to me like there is very little important communication  
> going on in
> ham radio, so why stress the narrow bandwidth? Would it block some  
> critical
> or important communication?

Because the figurative "MY" rights to communicate are always more  
important than the figurative "YOUR" rights to communicate.  There  
seem to be more and more hams who are just angry that their are any  
other hams who don't do precisely what they do, and we have more "road  
rage" than makes any sense at all.  We're killing our valued hobby by  
all of the screaming, literal anger, and infighting over mode,  
frequencies, bandwidth, operating -- and maybe just enjoy picking  
fights, to the detriment of all of us.

Grant/NQ5T