I can't stand to listen to 2-meter guys
(on the rare occasion anyone is even on)
when they start talking about antennas-
especially their venerated
and worshipped "Saint J-Pole."
It makes me despair of humanity...

And don't try to talk about anything
meaningful or current; you're an instant leper.
There's always one or two !#*@! guys who
can't hold their own ground in a real
conversation, so they call up and whine to
the control op (specifically chosen for
his weak, inoffensive and impotent nature)
who will instantly roll-over and expose his
tummy and beg "OH PLEEEEZE! Don't be
offended!!", lick the feet of the whiner,
and chastise or eject the MAN who dared
speak about anything other than Skywarn
("I'm here in case you need me.
I saw hail last week...") or the pantheon
of 2-meter magical antennas, Joved by
the aforementioned Saint J-Po;e.

OK... I'm through venting for now.
If you're offended, get in line.
I only have so much "don't give-a-bleep"
to go around and it ain't your turn yet.

73 D.S.
offend the pierced blue-hair weeny.

On 9/24/2025 6:28 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:

I attended here the summer field day, the first i have ever in having a license about 40 years - - with long years of inactivity, it

must be said. ( My Novice radio, in the 1980s, was a TCS rec and trans. ) Probably my last field day also, altho i make no judgements

on the event itself. One person, who i am pretty safe being sure they won’t be reading this, was racking up contacts, getting a score

and so on, but – i do not honestly think she could draw the schematic of a flashlight. Component level ham radio is pretty well over.

I base my statement not only on that eye-opening field day experience, but on my association with local hams on the 2 meter nets.

I am not saying this is good or bad; it’s just the way it is.

I look at the innards of some CB talkie that has a seemingly fixable fault, see it’s all SMT, basically not economically repairable.

-Hue Miller
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