[NLRS] Morse on The Move out...? Looks like it now...

[Scott L.]

Sales are down for everything these days, walk into any store and ask!  I
run a computer sales and service business myself, and I can tell you that
sales are a lot less this summer than the previous 3 years!!  And that has
nothing to do with easy ham licenses.  That's just the economy for you, up
and down as years go by.  Honestly, I can understand why the ARRL has seen a
big decline in membership, they COST TOO MUCH!!  I remember paying just over
$20 for a membership, and now I got my renewal in the mail the other day,
$39 for a year??  I understand how mailing and printing costs have gone up
to produce QST, but honestly, if there is something available for less
that's where you will find the customers.  People are cheap, I don't say
that in a demeaning manner, they just are!  Admit it, we would all pay $0.75
for something at one store instead of $1.00 for the same thing at another.
That's life, have to pinch those dollars.  And its hurting everything, not
just ham radio sales.  I talked to a guy that works for Best Buy in Sioux
Falls SD on the radio a week ago, we got on the subject of less sales for my
business, and he mentioned how the stock at Best Buy hasn't been moving at a
noticeable level, he mentioned walking past the same stack of boxed goods in
the back room for the last three months!

73,

Scott, KB0NLY


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chuck munce" <k0gjx@msn.com>
To: "NLRS" <nlrs@mailman.qth.net>; "Scott L." <kb0nly@svtv.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: [NLRS] Morse on The Move out...? Looks like it now...


> I don't think ham radio is well with all the easy licenses, sales are down
> at Dayton and ham stores, the ARRL has seen a big decline in membership.
Are
> these new op's joining the league ??
> Ham radio to me is personal satisfaction, I get a big rush working dx /
> pileups on cw there is nothing like it. fm, repeaters, rtty, psk, wsjt,
> ragchewing do nothing for me.
> CHUCK MUNCE K0SQ
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> > I wouldn't say that.  Ham Radio is alive and well, and will get even
> > better
> > once there is more interest in getting new people into the hobby.  Of
> > course
> > you will always have the gloom and doom types that say it will turn into
> > CB,
> > funny, cause everybody said that would happen when they made the no-code
> > license, never did happen.
> >
> > Oh well, I say good riddance to it as a licensing requirement, but I
know
> > that wont stop it from being used, and never wanted it to be totally
> > eliminated.  I just always thought that it was stupid to test on one
> > particular "MODE" of operation, why not test on SSB and FM and RTTY and
> > PSK31 and Packet and SSTV and etc etc etc.....  But you know how
> > government
> > agencies are after all, backwards and willing to spend 30 million
dollars
> > on
> > that toilet that Chuck speaks of.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Scott, KB0NLY
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> > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/nlrs
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