[MilCom] Why Should I Waste My Time Posting

[Ken]

Hello Jack & the group:

I would think that milcom has reached it's "maturity" (and perhaps "decline" 
point at this time (remember marketing 101 in the stages of a new product), 
barring another "9/11" type terrorist attack, or other milcom related "high 
adventure" that gets nationwide press coverage.

Most people buy scanners to listen to the local police, fire, ems (public 
safety) type activity.   Generally now with the advent of a lot of radio 
trunking systems, it takes a lot of money to just get into the hobby for 
most.  Milcom is also more difficult to understand to most hobbyists and 
when one talks about it to friends, family, & co-workers they may think you 
are "strange".  At my workplace I'm able to operate my scanner in my office 
& when 104th FW F15's fly over our facility I'll always let the others know 
what the callsign of the aircraft is (are) & how many of them are flying 
over.   HOWEVER, there's more intrest in what is going on if the local PD 
cruiser goes by with it's siren on :(

BTW I've chosen the once a month log summary posting as my method of 
historically reporting what I've heard milcom wise while monitoring, so at 
least anyone visiting or living in my monitoring area will readily be able 
to plug in those frequencies & hear activity.   I think that most hobbyists 
who sign on to this list could easily contribute their loggings, even if it 
was 1 day or a  few days of activity per month to give all of us the flavor 
of what is active milcom wise in their monitoring area.   Just takes a 
little self discipline & voluntary effort.  Hopefully more will decide to 
contribute to the list!!!

Ken
Springfield MA Monitoring Area

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Nesmith" <jnesmith2 at cfl.rr.com>
To: "milcom" <milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 8:23 AM
Subject: [MilCom] Why Should I Waste My Time Posting


>I went back and checked the number of post for Aug. '05. against Aug '09.
>
> Look's like anything I post is a WASTE of My Time!!
>
> Has everyone lost interest?