There are those in the Amateur Radio community who have no other
profession than Amateur Radio just as there are those whose professional
practice amounts to no more than a hobby!



On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 19:09 +0100, Graham wrote:
> ''professional amateurs''.
>  
> Ah .... tricky that one  !
>  
> G..
> 
> 
> From: Tony 
> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 7:00 PM
> To: [email protected] 
> Subject: LF: Fence sitter
> 
> 
> I will put my hand up and admit that I'm one of those members that
> doesn't post very often.
> To make matters worse, I don't transmit and only receive LF on a very
> irregular basis.
>  
> The reason I joined the black sheep reflector was to get technical
> information to enable me to eventually build an LF system, and that is
> the reason I'm still here.
> On many days the reflector is full of reception reports which are of
> no interest to me at all, also requests for skeds which again are of
> no interest to me, I've even seen reports of activity on 10m & 6m
> which I can easily see for myself on any cluster.
> All these unwanted (for me) posts are easily marked as "read" in my
> email program, but I'm not sure I would find it so easy if all post
> were duplicated over two different reflectors.
>  
> So I shall continue to sit on the fence and see which reflector
> attracts the technical posters, including "underground" earth mode
> results, and use that one and cancel the other.
>  
> I have to say that the last few days have reminded me of a girls
> school, all bitching, tantrums and tears. Not really what you would
> expect from grown up professional amateurs.
>  
> Tony, EI8JK.

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