Ham Guy wrote:

(Jeffrey Herman) wrote:

Radio Ron wrote:
Nobody seems to care about amateur radio including the hams themselves.If
you question what I say,just hangout on 75 meters and just listen to the
foul mouth bigots and the racial slurs that you hear.It isn't any different

Your brush is too broad. There are over 600 kilohams in the US. You're
hearing at most 100 of them, which amounts to 0.00017 (seventeen
hundred-thousandths), or 0.017% (seventeen thousandths percent). That's
not bad at all. Show us any other group that has such a low percentage
of bad boys.
Even if there were 1000 of them, that still amounts to only 0.0017 or
0.17% of entire amateur population. The problem is that if you so much
as sneeze on HF, half the world can possibly hear you; that factor is
what makes their behavior stand out. If their QSOs were occurring on VHF,
no one except locals would take notice.

Jeff KH6O


I don't think you appreciate the psychology of the situation.

Oh, I do. You said "nobody seems to care" which would indicate that
100% of the amateur community and the FCC have turned their backs to
our problems; that is completely false. Recall your logic 101 class:
To prove that "nobody cares" is false, it only takes one person who
does care -- that fact that you do care invalidates your own claim!

Try this
experiment; Take a plain, white piece of 8 1/2" by 11" printer paper.
Using a black magic marker, make a dot about the size of a dime on one
side of the paper. Now, show the paper to several people and ask them
what the first thing is that they notice. The majority of them will...

Your experiment coincides with my statement that if you so much as
sneeze on HF, half the world could possibly hear you. The riff-raff
are a tiny fraction of the amateur community, yet their bad behavior
on HF does present a bad image for the rest of us. But again, you
can't conclude that "nobody seems to care."

One thing is for sure, even the riff-raff can learn enough code to get
an HF license.

73, Jeff KH6O
--
Chief Petty Officer, U.S. Coast Guard
Mathematics Lecturer, University of Hawaii System