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Do You Still Find Amateur Radio Interesting?
Marcos Eliziario asks: "Soon, I'll be taking the exams for a Brazilian, Class-D, Ham Radio license (Equivalent to an American Technician License) and, as I was reading about the subject, I wondered what today's geek thinks about amateur radio. In the past, Ham Radio was very popular among nerds, however with the Internet boom it seems that interest on radio, among the younger generations, is becoming dimmer each day. A lot of cool things can be done with radio, like building your own equipment, digital modes (btw, few people know that Packet Radio was born on the amateur's rank), and long distance contacts. The gear is cool, there's a lot of things to be learned about propagation, and today's Hams even use satellites to talk. Do you think that we could see a renaissance of Ham Radio among 21st century techies?"
Wow... you're also the guy who cusses at women in Texas VHF-FM Society meetings. The person that posted that also posted this page about you.
Looks to me like it is all about a voted on measure to allow voting in the Society by paper mail, that was later disemboweled by the Board against the rules of the organization.
At least that is what this link says: A link to one of the people brave enough to tell the truth.
Quite the show of professionalism you Texas Hams have there - and Minnesota elected you to their Repeater Coordination group?
And then the NFCC. Truly amazing. Or is that disgusting?
Neat what you can find on that there IntarWeb thingy. Your friends really like you. That web page above was fourth or fifth down the list on Google for "Texas-VHF-FM Society".
I think I'll post Anonymously so you don't shoot me - Mr. "Benefactor Life Member of the National Rifle Association" according to your web page.
Hopefully prospective Hams can learn something about how NOT to behave as an Amateur by your example.