[Milsurplus] [GreenKeys] lack of civility

[roy wildermuth]

Hello

Off topic a bit and but I am steamed.

I was stunned last week while listening to *The Marconi Net*. It was jammed
by someone who used extreme profanity. I certainly do not have tin ears and
can swear with the best but this stuff was sexual and bathroom language. My
wife was in the other room and she commented on what a fine demonstration of
the many $1000's of dollars worth of equipment this was showing off. I have
a grandson and sure do not want him hearing this. Maybe we need to bring
back the 20-WPM, tough theory and 1 shot novice license. Perhaps even
require first timers to build their own equipment.  Hard earned is well
defended.

Roy Wildermuth
My opinion, Worth every cent you paid

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Yeah, I consider contest weekends the time to turn off the radio and do
> something else.  Although it's got to where hardly a weekend goes by
> without some kind of contest.
>
> Back in the late 1950s I used to enjoy the RTTY contests.  At that time
> there were only two per year.  And W5YM was the only RTTY station active
> in Arkansas, so everybody wanted to work us.  And there were only a few
> thousand RTTY stations at all.
>
> Now I don't find the contests any fun at all, but I won't criticize those
> who do.  Just wish there were fewer contests.
>
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