Subj : Re: No license operators
To   : tenser
From : n2qfd
Date : Thu Mar 21 2024 11:54 am

No Dope, 

 te> I'm an extra, been licensed for a decade, blah blah blah.  I
 te> only mention this because too many hams use their decades of
 te> licensed status as some kind of cudgel with which to argue.
  
I love this, somehow I slipped into the QCWA qualifying range but for exactly the reasons mentioned I have no desire to be a part of that! 

 te> are often the loudest.  These were the same people who claimed
 te> that no-code hams would ruin the hobby, that the tests were
 te> being watered down, that the hobby was ruined...and then turn
 te> around and wonder why, "the bands are dead."  Maybe because you
 te> guys chased off everyone who was remotely interested?

Yep, early No-Code, that got boring quickly and I upgraded. The Repeater scene was very much like the CB at one point and I just needed more from this hobby. 

 te> So, if people behave like that, why would a young person be
 te> motivated to study for and then _pay money_ to get licensed?
 te> Just to be verbally abused by some jerk on the air?  No, thank

My license test was $5... what's it up to now! 

 So, I haven't even bothered with the local club. It's not that I don't value the things like having some nice digipeaters around for almost no-one to use APRS on! It's the role crazed jerks. Yellow Vest+Radio doesn't make you an authority any more than years in. And with just as interesting of avenues outside the license I can play radio with my Android, My WiFi gear heck even getting back to BBS and deciding to start one here. 

  I'm a young ham in my mid 40's now and I've buried most of my friends. I sometimes check into a DMR net which is just VoIP with more steps. The conversation hasn't changes in 30 years and the experimenters and the innovators don't seem to be there saying "hey I'm trying this with my gear what do you think?" 
  Is is disappointing? Maybe a little, but things change. I'm working some fun digital modes we didn't have but even that seems like it's too much work for the many out there. >>Key up repeater|run down current times|willfully forget that what it was, wasn't always there either.<< 

  Someone once said to me that if you hold on the rope too tightly you will eventually get dragged. 

  C'est la vie, 

  N2QFD

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