XPost: rec.radio.amateur.policy, uk.radio.amateur   
   From: kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com   
      
   "Spike"  wrote in message   
   news:f29d12F8kneU1@mid.individual.net...   
   > On 16/09/2017 17:22, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:   
   >> "Issac Hunt"  wrote   
   >>> 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 .......   
   >   
   >   
   > Stop whinning, Jimbo. ROTL   
   >   
   >   
   what a "drag" ...   
      
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