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   From: kinvig.netta@ntlworld.com   
      
   "Roger Hayter"  wrote in message   
   news:1nnz098.xlpav519lf3u2N%roger@hayter.org...   
   > Jimbo in Hawick ...  wrote:   
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   >> "Roger Hayter"  wrote in message   
   >> news:1nnyw12.1zslla1kvtmkgN%roger@hayter.org...   
   >> > Alan  wrote:   
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   >> >> Jimbo in Hawick ...  wrote:   
   >> >>   
   >> >> > It is still dying...   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Yes, but nowhere near as fast, and it is evolving   
   >> >>   
   >> >> > They should have left it alone...   
   >> >>   
   >> >> The numbers for the late 90s show that if nothing was changed, there'd   
   >> >> be   
   >> >> pretty much no new UK amateurs. Something had to change, the   
   >> >> theee-tier   
   >> >> structure was that change, it made a difference and I think it's   
   >> >> unlikely   
   >> >> that decision will be reversed.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> BR de Al   
   >> >   
   >> > I think you're absolutely right, and the new scheme is probably a good   
   >> > thing.  However, I don't think I would have ever become a radio amateur   
   >> > if it had meant approaching some middle-aged volunteer via a club and   
   >> > doing a sort of show-and-tell test.   I would have had too much   
   >> > self-respect.   But maybe the world has changed and people like me are   
   >> > no loss to the hobby.   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >> it was great...they just turned the CB clubs into hammy mens clubs and   
   >> let   
   >> through all their pals ....   
   >   
   > But if they were the only people who actually wanted to be amateurs then   
   > what do you do?   No point in reserving the hobby for those of us  who   
   > are dying off!   
      
   we are all dying off and the hammy chemical generation faster than us   
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   >   
   >> .not the kind of people we would want to be seen   
   >> dead with .....the no loss to the hobby are all the m3 and m6s ........as   
   >> one of my local MM3s when selling up his equipment said :  "only used for   
   >> jamming" ... anyway progress is all those new digital modes where it is   
   >> all   
   >> done automatically by the computer ........   
   >   
   > Someone's got to set up the computer!  Unless you think the future AIs   
   > that run the earth will want to play with WSPR?  (They may want this as   
   > a defence against guerrila remnants of humanity cutting their optical   
   > cables?)   
   >   
      
   now you are just being silly ....   
      
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