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    RR> What is your current list of Amateur Radio pet peeves?   
      
   1) Stations not using ITU phonetics at checkin on nets.   
      
   2) Stations not following directions of net control.   
      
   3) Stations claiming their club is the best.   
      
   4) Stations saying "you're not a ham if you don't do CW".   
      
   5) Stations who feel that the Part 97 Rules don't apply to them.   
      
   6) Stations saying "internet radio is not ham radio". Years ago, an   
   FCC official noted "We are communicators FIRST, and hams SECOND".   
   With more and more hams having to go into HOA's, CC&R's, assisted   
   living or medical facilities...or they have things like a heart   
   condition..."internet radio" still allows them to be a part in a    
   life long hobby.   
      
     I personally don't care if they are a Novice, Technician, General,   
   Advanced, or Amateur Extra Class licensee...whether or not they took   
   and passed a Morse Code exam...whether they got licensed in the last   
   week, or before World War II...or how much they do in the hobby (on   
   the air and otherwise). If they are licensed, that's all that matters    
   to me.   
      
     All of us were beginners at one time, and we should be Elmering those   
   new to the hobby. Elmering is the highest compliment that an amateur   
   radio operator can receive...and it's part of "giving back to the hobby".   
      
     I give back to the hobby by doing several traffic nets per week, doing   
   the audio transcript of the monthly Quarter Century Wireless Association   
   (QCWA) Journal for visually impaired/blind folks, overseeing amateur   
   radio license exams as a Volunteer Examiner Team Leader, doing programs   
   for amateur radio clubs or hamfest forums, and overall promotion of the   
   hobby. As a Volunteer Examiner Team Leader, my job is to get folks   
   licensed or upgraded. What they do after they get into the hobby, is   
   their business.   
      
     Ham Radio is a HOBBY, and it should NEVER take priority over things   
   such as church, health, family, job, honey-do's, and honey-dont's...   
   even though you, Ham, took Radio, to be your lawfully wedded spouse   
   (hi hi). Life does get in the way of our hobbies...and without your   
   health, you have nothing.   
      
   73,   
      
   Daryl, N5VLZ   
      
   ... "I was married by a Judge. I should've asked for a Jury". - Groucho Marx   
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