DXCC is bought with weeks, months, and years of your life.
Contesting is a battle of bank accounts and who can neglect their family life the most without getting divorced and financially taken to the cleaners more than they are building a contest station.
Wayne Green was a nutcase. https://web.archive.org/web/20110728064253/http://www.waynegreen.com/
ARRL is a publications company with a side gig in amateur radio advocacy.
Amateur radio Emcomm is a relic of the 1950s.
Regenerative receivers are great if you have three hands.
Contesting ruins everything. Emcomm ruins everything else.
NVIS is just another name for using a lousy low antenna that shoots most of its power straight up.
The only antenna that sucks more than a vertical is an end fed half wave.
If Elecraft announced a black box for sale, it would get hundreds of pre-orders. Stunning reviews of the black box would show up in social media the next day. The black box would start shipping five years after the first announcement.
The only replacement for the Yaesu FT-817 is another FT-817.
If you have a really old Kenwood HF rig that still works, sell it before it stops working.
If your contester friends think you’re a formidable and highly respectable contester, everyone else in amateur radio thinks you’re a jerk. Actively competing in contests is like attempting to claw your way to the top of a pile of aholes.
If you think you’re going to change ARRL, you’re not. If you really think someone else is going to change ARRL, they’re really not going to. ARRL does not do change and works to expel anyone from the organization who thinks they will change it.
There are more people upset with those wanting to remove CW from the bands than there are actual people wanting to remove CW from the bands.
The code test didn’t make smart radio amateurs, it made people who learned the code to pass a test.
Winlink 2000 was appropriately named for the year it should have been deprecated.
CW is not a dying mode. AM, on the other hand….
Most of the biggest jerks in amateur radio passed a code test.
Old boat anchors are nostalgic, but if you’re thinking of buying one to “relive the golden age of amateur radio” or whatever, you’re going to be seriously disappointed. The performance of old rigs sucks. Something that you solder together with a handful of 2N2222s will probably work better.
Amateur radio blogs are really boring. Amateur radio podcasts and YouTube videos are even more boring, though not as boring as an ECARS net. However, ECARS nets are much more exciting than MARS nets.
Preppers are parasites that contribute nothing to the radio art and don’t belong in amateur radio.
Amateur radio clubs are always three meetings away from someone pissing off half the members and causing everyone to quit the club and/or go form another club.
Amateur radio clubs are two people who do everything and fifty other people who have opinions and “great ideas” and do nothing to implement them.
89% of the time in MARS nets is used for identifying.
ARRL is a case study in how not to do IT, social media, transparency, and organizational governance.
If you’re concerned that you won’t be sure if someone you’re having a QSO with likes Trump, guns, or religion, don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
ARRL is not the association for promoting amateur radio, it’s the association for promoting ARRL.
The purpose of being a member of ECARS or MidCARS is being a member of ECARS or MidCARS.
Any sentence that includes the words “real ham” or “real ham radio” is total bullshit, including this sentence.
Amateur radio doesn’t have a growth or lack of youth problem, it has a culture problem.
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