XPost: rec.radio.amateur.policy, uk.radio.amateur   
   From: kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com   
      
   >   
   > It's dreadful. The wide shots say it all: the hobby is hideously pale and   
   > old male. Wheeling out the compulsory 12-year-old or the YL M6 who enjoys   
   > a laugh doesn't change that. It confirms what decades of RSGB membership   
   > surveys have revealed: the 'youth' part is minuscule, and remains so. and   
   > the 'average amateur' is male, 60 years old, does HF CW, and builds   
   > things.   
      
   almost me but not quite......   
      
   >   
   even the yank talked about "England" .......... Radio club of London it is   
   .....   
      
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