[Qcwa] Contest boycotts?

Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:02:16 -0600

Of course.  You trade quantity for quality and you will have quantity.

That's what the elimination of the "apprentice"  novice class license has 
created.  The hobby can only continue the slide deeper into the
mire.  How can new hams learn to be "hams" with no guidance?  They come into 
the service with a life longe learned attitude, and will continue that 
attitude......

>From: "Tom Repstad" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [Qcwa] Contest boycotts?
>Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:37:01 -0500
>
>I do not wish to get into the political aspects of the war in Iraq, other
>than to state the obvious that the world and this country are divided on 
>the
>issue.
>
>But it saddens me that the amateur radio bands are starting to sound like
>"CB". I agree completely with Raymond/W5VPU. When I started in ham radio in
>'75, hams were polite, apolitical and followed FCC regulations. I don't 
>know
>how many times I've heard stations engage in long discussions without ever
>identifying themselves, hams that think they own a frequency just because
>they have weekly schedule there, hams who tune up on frequency where a DX
>station is working a pile-up, and various other forms of rude behavior.
>
>Perhaps we need more OO's and more enforcement of the rules and 
>regulations.
>The FCC has stepped up it's enforcement for those hams who commit blatant
>and harmful violations, perhaps it's time to "slap a few wrists" for
>behaviour unbecomming a ham. I do believe that most hams are polite, and
>follow rules and proper operating procedures... but the number of "rude"
>hams is growing. :o(
>
>--Tom
>K1VG
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 7:35 AM
>Subject: [Qcwa] Contest boycotts?
>
>
> > Hello, Bob:
> >
> > I am in no way surprised. The world (i.e., "the people" in the world) is
>not
> > today what it was. Not just what was when I was first licensed fifty 
>years
> > ago, but even five years ago. Amatuer radio operators all over our own
> > country today are not what they were when we were all first licensed (at
> > least twenty-five years ago.)
> >
> > He has a right, I suppose, to respond as he wishes. To talk to whomever 
>he
> > chooses to is within all our rights. Yet how he chooses to do what he 
>does
> > reveals more about him than it does about you and me. It is totally 
>about
> > him, not us.
> >
> > I am saddened by the downward spiral in the civility in ham ranks that I
>have
> > observed over the past several years. But it is nothing more than a
> > reflection of how people today are less civil than they used to be. As
>well,
> > I have learned through my experiences in countless venues there is 
>nothing
>I
> > can do to "make" another person be different from what he or she chooses
>to
> > be. If I may, I would suggest that we all be rather careful as to how we
> > choose to respond to these rebuffs. These behaviors, as I said, are more
> > about them than they are about us. These are the behaviors of people who
> > apparently don't know to do anything else. That's why people who are in
> > stages of high anger are called "mad."
> >
> > Those barbs sent our way are by people who want to "get our goat." I
>worked
> > under an incompetent supervisor (who hasn't?) about whom I once remarked
>in
> > anger and frustration to a colleague, "He just gets my goat!" That 
>friend,
> > wiser than I, simply pointed out the only thing under my control, "Stop
> > putting your goat in the front yard."
> >
> > I was taught that as human beings our anger is directly proportional not
>to
> > what we actually get, but to what we expect and don't get. The ball is 
>in
>our
> > court. Where we lob it depends totally on us. And if we respond in a
> > mini-war, those who rebuff us have gotten just what they wanted -- to
>prove
> > we are less civil than they.
> >
> > 73,        Raymond                W5VPU
> >
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