Subj : this echo
To : Roy Witt
From : Steve Bainbridge
Date : Sun May 20 2001 06:21 am
Hi Roy
SB>>>> meaning no disrespect to anyone, but apart from the solar reports,
SB>>>> there ain't much else in this echo. I think it maybe time to
SB>>>> consider dropping it from my system
>>> You get out of this echo what you put into it, just like
>>> any other echo.
SB>> This is very true, however, no one seems to putting anything in, do
SB>> they ?.
> Nope. Not that they haven't in the past, just not much
> interest for radio
> in fidonet these days. There used to be all kinds of
Seems there is not much interest in Radio period.
> activity, but as the
> hobby gets less and less people in it, so will the echo
> activity. At the
> moment, there are at least 7 radio oriented echoes in
> distribution;
> AMATEUR_RADIO .......... "AMATEUR RADIO / HAM RADIO"
> HAM .................... "Amateur Radio Interest"
> HAM-SALE ............... "Ham Radio equipment sale, swap
> and buy"
> HAM_REQ ................ "Amateur Radio File
> Announcements & File
> Requests"
> HAM_TECH ............... "Amateur(HAM) Radio TECHnical
> Conference"
> RADIO_HOBBY-ALL ........ "ALL HOBBY RADIO: Low Power FM,
> CB, Scanners,
> Shortwave"
> SCANRADIO .............. "INTERNATIONAL VHF-UHF SCANNER
> RADIO-RECEIVER
> CONFERENCE"
> Most of which see about the same traffic from the same
> participants as
> this echo does. Some of those above haven't s
This is true . I take the UK radio amateur usenet mail, and it mainly contains
flames ect, very little to do with AR.
> activity for months.
SB>> It would be an idea if maybe some of the users did a profile
SB>> of the gear they use, the bands and times, in UTC, they are on the
SB>> air.
> I don't know if any of us are on HF anymore. My Kenwood
> TS620 hasn't
> been turned on in ages. I do have a ten meter rig that I
> turn on once
> in a while. Nothing to get excited about there. I used
> to be quite active
> on UHF.
Well there you go. Tis time to fire it up again
Steve
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