XPost: rec.radio.amateur.policy, uk.radio.amateur   
   From: Aero.Spike@mail.invalid   
      
   On 16/09/2017 09:55, Brian Reay wrote:   
   > On 16/09/2017 09:44, Spike wrote:   
   >> On 15/09/2017 14:54, Ian Wade G3NRW wrote   
      
   >>> I originally joined the RSGB way back in 1959 (although I am no longer   
   >>> a member). From that time onwards I've always thought the RSGB was   
   >>> mostly pretty poor at publicity (except during the days of Sylvia   
   >>> Margolis), but this video is the exception.   
      
   >>> Well done RSGB. To me this video is easy to watch, has lots of   
   >>> personal contributions from members, and presents a wide range of   
   >>> topics illustrating the many interests of radio amateurs.   
      
   >>> I hope the video enjoys a wide distribution.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   >> I hope this gets binned toot sweet.   
      
   > You can hope all you like, it is another of your many predictions etc   
   > which simply won't happen.   
      
   What prediction would that be, sunshine?   
      
   > You've been whinning about the RSGB (and other related matters) for as   
   > long as I've monitored ukra. In that time, nothing you have predicted   
   > has come to pass.   
      
   Break a rule and cite a few. Bet you can't.   
      
   > You, and your fellow usual rejects, are part of the whinning apathetic   
   > mass of under achievers with no real interest in the hobby. You don't   
   > contribute to its future and you won't be missed.   
      
   Like the whinning (sic) underachiever who after going the full training   
   route, had to ask for help because he didn't know what sideband to use   
   on 40m?   
      
   Who dreamed up this dreadful failure of a training scheme?   
      
      
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   Spike   
      
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