XPost: rec.radio.amateur.policy, uk.radio.amateur   
   From: hunt@kuntlicher.com   
      
   On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 11:06:47 +0100, Spike wrote:   
      
   > 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?   
      
   A stone mason.   
      
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