Fellow hams, unite!

[electronjohn]

Well, Sandy...if the hams around there are snoots you'll just have to ragchew with somebody in Wyoming...or Alaska...or Portugal. You get my drift. One comment that some folks have made about some ham clubs is a somewhat-exclusionary attitude. Not nice. Hams should be doing everything they can to attract newcomers to the fraternity instead of some misguided "elitist" attitude. I'm not a member of the local club (prolly should join, hmmm?) but the members are more than happy to see me if I pop by during Field Day or something like that. Locally there seems to a be a big gap...quite a few older fellows, along with a number of really young folks...some of whom came to hamming through Boy Scouts. But...not as many in the 30-50 age bracket.

We gotta find a good ham in East Tennessee to take ol' Sandy G under his wing.