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  • Re: Repost from FB - Ham Radio Is Dying

    From Rug Rat@1:135/250 to Jason Brady on Thu Nov 20 21:01:54 2025
    On Mon 10-Nov-2025 8:22p, Jason Brady@1:218/910.0 said to Rug Rat:
    Hello Brent,

    >> You might be a bit disapointed then with POTA...

    Points taken regarding the contest-like characteristics of the program,
    but I have encountered a number of POTA and SOTA operators who will chat a bit during QSOs.

    They are out there (Just like there are stations that will try to stop and rag chew during a contest..).. It is just not the norm. I give warning because you hear people all the time how they were put off from ham radio after getting their license and feeling that nobody really wanted to talk to them.

    My response to that may sound a bit odd, but I feel that those people just toss away the hobby because it was not what they expected, are the ones that either got into it for the prepper aspect or like the example above not only believed the marketing but like all endevors had a starry eyed vision that they where going to get their ticket and everyone on on the air would want to talk to them for hours on end and instead of taking the time to find their niche either found the "sad ham theory promoting YouTube channels" and to save themselves the bruised ego belived the probelm is "those old timers.." or put their license aside..

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  • From jimmy anderson@1:105/7 to Rug Rat on Tue Nov 25 20:37:23 2025
    Rug Rat wrote to Jason Brady <=-

    They are out there (Just like there are stations that will try to stop
    and rag chew during a contest..).. It is just not the norm. I give warning because you hear people all the time how they were put off from ham radio after getting their license and feeling that nobody really wanted to talk to them.

    My response to that may sound a bit odd, but I feel that those people
    just toss away the hobby because it was not what they expected, are the ones that either got into it for the prepper aspect or like the example above not only believed the marketing but like all endevors had a
    starry eyed vision that they where going to get their ticket and
    everyone on on the air would want to talk to them for hours on end and instead of taking the time to find their niche either found the "sad
    ham theory promoting YouTube channels" and to save themselves the
    bruised ego belived the probelm is "those old timers.." or put their license aside..

    Same with local repeaters on 2m/440. There are more repeaters than
    there are people on the air. :-) But I've learned that a lot of them
    are on HF, which I'm working toward getting set up.

    But yeah - I'll put the radio on scan when I'm in the truck and a
    lot of time it's dead. I'll call out, but sometimes I'm listening
    to a podcast and don't take time to call, but will listen and/or
    answer when someone does. :-)





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