[reagan_fanatic]

How sad that in this country, Ham Radio is dying a slow death. I have been a Ham for 15 years, and what the hobby desperately needs is new blood. Unfortunately, all today's kids seem interested in are cell phones and the Internet. They don't know what they are missing.

[Leo Carpathian]

We need to spread the news and stories about ham radio emergency assistance and human as well as competitive side of it. Glad to hear that the DXpeditioners are OK and are helping out. This should help to establish permanent hams on the islands there.

73 + HNY

[First_Salute]

Ham radio and Linux have a simiar problem. They are proposed by people who got their rig to work, but in turn, are not really much help as instructors.

The number of publications that you can spend money on, trying to get good answers, before you find the very few really good publications, is also, costly, in both sciences.

Though I hasten to add, that among ham radio folks, they are much nicer people than the Linux hams whose accomplishments are lorded over newbies.

If you want newbies, you had better submit yourself to learning how to be a good instructor.