[Milsurplus] U.S.N. MAK radio FS

[Lee]

You are spot on, Mike.   I have noticed the same thing.  I've been on 
the air since 1953 and things are getting worse.  It truly was a 
gentleman's hobby back then.  Just go to hamfests and see how people 
dress today.  I have sent things to hams and they don't even give you a 
"Thank You" when the receive it.  I've even noticed this with some 
prominent hams.  I dropped being a member of one local club for more 
then one reason, but one of the reasons was how the club treated a 
window of a former member on his equipment.  Listen in on some of their 
conversations on the air.  That will tell you a lot of their makeup 
too.  I'm amazed at how cheap some people are.  Like when they beg on 
one of these lists for one simple resistor.  When I need a resistor, I 
buy 100 of them.  However, I no longer help others out as I once did.  
I'll never forget the time I was talking on the air to a neighbor.  
Another ham neighbor who is a multimillionaire was listening in to the 
conversation.  I needed a SO-239 and had just run out of them.  My buddy 
and I helped each other out under these circumstances.  The third 
neighbor broke in and said he had some.  Then he proceeded to talk out 
load saying, "let's see,  I payed $1.25 each for them.  I'll let you 
have one for $2.50!"  All along I had been giving him tubes as he needed 
them for free and what did he do with them?  He put them in radios he 
sold for an enormous profit.  This guy was an airline pilot flying to 
Japan as Captain.  I've got plenty other stories to tell like this. Same 
goes for giving someone some good advice in depth on one of these 
lists.  You are lucky to get a thank you for doing so.  So what do I do 
today?  I keep my mouth shut and don't freely help others out as I once 
did.  I make exceptions, but they are rare. Then too look at the greed 
on Ebay with many sellers.  All this is disgusting.
Lee, w0vt
>
> In almost 50 years a ham, I've met more opportunistic dirtbags and dishonest small-time crooks with call signs at hamfests than I've met at any other public gathering,
>
> Mike / KK5F
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