[GreenKeys] The answers you get over a simple request! !

[Keelan Lightfoot]

Speaking of 'empty' houses...

My current living situation is 'storage impaired'. I have a 10x12 tin can shed that I keep my garden tools and less precious items in, the rest goes into a rented storage unit.

When driving around town and peering into other's open garage doors (oh dear), I'm always sickened by the deplorable under-utilization of garage space that I see. I often see a large space reserved for a car (they're weatherproof, they don't belong in garages!), and a few domestic items stacked on a rickety plastic shelf in the corner. I dream of the crap (GEMS!) I could fill that space with. If I aggregated all of my stuff into one place, I could surely fill at least half of a one car garage right away!

I was most offended by a garage in the 'fancy' part of town that I saw while 'garage sale-ing'. On the side of the garage, there was a miniature garage door, sized perfectly for a golf cart.

I too grew up in one of those 'non-empty' houses. My parents, brothers and myself always had something on the go. When I was 12 or so, I had to shimmy around a table full of mechanical cash registers and adding machines to get to my bed, but I loved it.

- Keelan

On 2011-10-10, at 9:45 PM, Lee Mushel wrote:

> Gentlemen,
> 
> I guess I haven't been paying close enough attention to this thread.   But I 
> assume it is in response to the report that a visitor had made an 
> observation referring to those machines we all love as "old junk."  And I 
> think I've commented in the past that it would be wise if all of us would 
> make a greater effort to expose young people to our interest.   I certainly 
> have experienced the "negative comment" personally.   And I do think that 
> I've concluded that my own interest is due to exposure to "how things work" 
> by my mother and grandmother.   I remember comments made by my sons when 
> they reached the age where they would independently visit the homes of 
> others and conclude  that "other people's houses are empty."   And when my 
> wife asked one of my prospective daughter's in law what she thought of our 
> house the girl replied that is reminded her of a "sort of junky museum." 
> But I also recognize that as part of my ham radio interest there are many 
> who reject the leading edge technology and stubbornly maintain that 
> computers have no place in the hobby.  So I'm forced to conclude that the 
> problem we see is not related to "old vs. new."
> 
> I'll just continue to do the best I can and make sure that visitors can sit 
> down and type---with the machine cover removed or "up" as appropriate.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Lee   K9WRU
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <airrelic at juno.com>
> To: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 9:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] The answers you get over a simple request! !
> 
> 
>> That is really frustrating. I'm with Keelan. The less people know what 
>> they really are, more the available they become for the hobby. The biggest 
>> limitation for me is the distance to go get the stuff. I don't understand 
>> why others embrace computers but not these old machines. I love to watch 
>> the analyzer on my 922 flash the 5 code sequences and spell the words as 
>> it 'foxes' just from the pattern of leds. How many people can print out 
>> messages directly from streaming audio like we can? Take that, HP tech! 
>> KevinKD8QGX
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