XPost: rec.radio.amateur.policy, uk.radio.amateur   
   From: kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com   
      
   "Issac Hunt"  wrote in message   
   news:opj9g3$qbv$1@dont-email.me...   
   > 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.   
      
   Naw a stonned mason .......   
      
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