Re: [IRCA] Semi-OT, maybe not - Poll question

["willis" <k4ape@xxxxxxxx>]

CONGRATS ON YOUR TICKET!!!
I do understand where your coming from. I haven't been on much in resent
years.
I still like to work 20 meter DX on CW. But thats about it.

73's

Willis



----- Original Message -----
From: "John Cereghin" <pastor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Semi-OT, maybe not - Poll question


> I got my ticket last year (KB3LYP) but haven't done much with it for a
variety of reasons.  But it took me 25 years from when I started DXing in
1976 to get my ticket and that was only because of my "mid-life crises" when
I turned 40.  It wasn't a "natural progression" to me more than just wanting
to finish something I started as a teenager.
>
> But since I got my ham ticket I've gotten back to MW DXing, so a lot of
good it did for me!
>
> John Cereghin
> Smyrna DE
>
> cafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: I had an e-mail from an Amateur Radio operator
> today who refered to SWL/DXing as an interesting
> "Sub-Hobby" of Ham Radio.
>
> Now - I am sure to open up a can of worms
> and I am sure this issue has been discussed to
> death... but.
>
> I have been SWL/DXing since 1971 -- In 1973 I studied
> for the Canadian Amateur ticket (while attending the
> occasional local Ham radio club meetings) and found
> the attitude of some of the young, newer Hams quite
> off-putting. Their attitude was pretty much: "You are
> either a Ham or a CBer.
> SWL/DXers are either failed hams or people that just
> do not have what it takes to be hams."
>
> This statement so resonated with me way back in the
> mid-seventies that I decided that I could not be
> bothered with this kind of elitist claptrap.
>
> Truth be told, every other Amateur radio operator
> over the age of about 25 had quite a different
> attitude -- more of a nurturing quality but still
> holding to the "Every DXer/SWL will ONE DAY become a HAM..."
>
> Funny how this still resonates with me - my baggage I guess. :-)
>
> Anyhow - my question is: Do Amateur radio ops and SWL/DXers still
> feel that Ham radio is a natural progression of a DXer/SWLs career?
>
> I have been listening to everything from MW Dx to Ham radio and Utes
> for over 30 years and I have never had any desire to "get on the air"
> and talk to anyone.
>
> Truth be told, I will, at some point get an Amateur ticket
> if only to get more involved in my Provinces emergency program.
>
>
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