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"Ric Trexell" wrote:

I was reading a few of the posts about how there will not be a need
for ham radio in the future due to all the new ways of communicating.

There is no real need for them now.

That has a lot to do with it but I think the biggest problem with ham
radio is the hams themselves.

Some ham's have a bad attitude toward the hobby but you can't lump them
all into one group.

CB'ers killed CB'ing with bad language and hams are doing it with
those stupid contests. I remember as a kid getting my first SW radio
and listening to hams talk about their lives and the area that they
lived in and stuff like that. Now when I turn it on I get guys
talking only about their radio or calling CQ CQ contest. Then
another will come back and say they are 5 and 9 out here in Kansas
and soon the guy is calling CQ CQ contest again. Does any one think
that people are going to invest in a radio and all the learning to do
what are nothing more than fancy radio checks? If that is what the
ham bands are going to be used for, then I say turn them over to
business and telephone radio freqs. Ric.

Well, those are some of the reasons why I'm not a ham.

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Telamon
Ventura, California