> That's kinda sad. Not that there are new ones, and not that they fall
 > away (not every hobby is for every body, of course) but that they
 > boast that many new ones but most fall away. I'd rather have only
 > 5 people pass their test each year and 3 or 4stay than 15 pass it
 > and only 4 or 5 stay.

It's doesn't make sence to me either, why go though the trouble and pay for a 
course then not do anything with it?  I did it solo, didn't cost me anything 
and I hate the idea of just giving it up because the local stuff is so dead.

I can only think of a couple people that got licensed recently that around, 
one is a horrible operator, he'll key up and talk over people on nets if he 
wants to talk and always runs high power so he just step on anybody that 
isn't.  He inturpted me once while I was using the echolink on one repeater 
to connect to the southcars net, and told the net controller (who had nothing 
to do with the link being up) to get off the repeater because there was 
another net coming on in a bit. 


 > HT I was only able to HEAR and SOMETIMES transmit. Now I have access
 > to repeaters 30 - 50 miles away as well. Maybe with a 'more than
 > HT' you'd have more people to talk to?

When I have a regular radio, I use to get good range, I'm on the 8th floor 
in an apartment and use a home made groud plane on 2m. I use to get in to a 
repeater about 50 miles away til they lost access to the tower they were 
using and had to move the repeater.  There's a couple other out of town 
repeaters I could hit, but they were small towns and pretty quiet too. 

 > GB3LV? If so - just connected... No response yet, but I'll add it to
 > my favorites!
took some looking, when I first got on the air i logged evey contact on paper 
using a old Radio Shask logbook I modifity and reprinted, yes, GB3LV, April 
24 2010, and the contact was m0rom. 


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