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RE: eham: the web resthome of amateur radio	Reply
by K7SU on May 18, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
I consider myself very computer literate and see some merit in this discussion. However, my frustration comes from hams who: Never turn on their radio's, Think that SSTV still involves a room full of homebrew equipment, Think the most recent innovation in amateur radio is the hilltop 2-meter repeater, Are "gonna have to put that HF antenna back up someday" after it fell down about 20 years ago, Wouldn't have one of those "blasted" computers cause they "just don't understand them and don't want to", Wouldn't have email if they DID have a computer, Never heard of QRZ.COM or EHAM.NET, and Can't figure out why the local club doesn't send out that monthly newsletter via snail-mail anymore. Some enhancements on here would be nice but I'm not sure many of the 600,000 and some hams would know what to do with them. When you have millions of users to support things like Myspace and Facebook it's a lot more practical than the numbers of hams within our ranks who are active online. You can use the argument that if we had more "up to date" ham-related web sites that we would attract more of the younger generation to become hams, but my gut feeling tells me that probably wouldn't be the case. I don't think people become "hams" because of the "neat and cool" websites. But then, I could be wrong. Just my $.02 worth K7SU

RE: eham: the web resthome of amateur radio	Reply
by WX4O on May 19, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
eHam is my favorite ham site, and I usually visit it several times a day. If it changes for the better - great. If it stays the same - fantastic. I almost made it my home page once. 10 of 10.

RE: eham: the web resthome of amateur radio	Reply
by WX4O on June 2, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Stop bitching and don't use eHam. I happen to like it just fine.

RE: eham: the web resthome of amateur radio	Reply
by AA4PB on June 2, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
George, this morning is an example of the delays I experience. Making the initial connection to the site or going to another page was taking in excess of 30 seconds, sometimes timing out and requiring several tries. I tried two different computers using two differnt ISPs and had the same delays. One was on a cable modem and the other on a high speed corporate network. Other sites were normal. After about 45 minutes I tried again and everything had returned to normal.

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by N4VNZ on June 3, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
I come to this site for reading material. If I want videos I will go to YouTube. Before this year, all I had available was dial-up and I remember wishing that the websites would cool it on the heavy graphics because of the page loading time. Not a problem now with cable service, but really, if you are interested in lots of visual stuff there are more websites around that will please you. Kind of reminds me of the old joke about the "slow" guy not liking a particular book because it did not contain pictures... The social networking sites seem heavily populated (mostly) by hormonally-challenged youth whose spelling skills are painful to read and whose vocabulary seems to revolve around the expletive "fu*k" and the taunts "retard" and "moron", etc. ad nauseum... Those of your who think that Eham is the only place where a complete lack of civility in posts and replies exists are ignorant of the facts. For an enlightening experience, read the "comments" posted by YouTube viewers on just about any topic... Eham, nice site,sometimes a bit dull in content, but that is largely the fault of it's contributors. You guys put way more time into this (for free) than I would be willing to do...thank you. Those of you complaining about the lack of whiz-bang graphics must really hate blog sites that are almost entirely based on text. 73, N4VNZ

RE: eham: the web resthome of amateur radio	Reply
by AA4PB on June 3, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
Those of us who live in major population areas tend to forget that there are still many places in this country where dial up and satellite are the only options.

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by W3LK on June 3, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
What eHam needs is editing ability on posts (restricted to the OP), a new forum software that puts the current topics at the top of the lists, an elimination of anonymous posting and actual moderation for profanity and other nonsense on a regular basis rather only after several dozen complaints are received. It does NOT need fancy formatting, putting images in posts, video or other similar bandwidth-hogging nonsense. 73, Lon - W3LK Naugatuck, Connecticut

RE: eham: the web resthome of amateur radio	Reply
by K5TR on June 4, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
> George, this morning is an example of the delays I > experience. Making the initial connection to the site > or going to another page was taking in excess of 30 > seconds, sometimes timing out and requiring several > tries. I tried two different computers using two > differnt ISPs and had the same delays. One was on a > cable modem and the other on a high speed corporate > network. Other sites were normal. After about 45 > minutes I tried again and everything had returned to > normal. Yes - I noticed this as well - it took me a bit of time to understand what was causing the trouble. The good news is that I now understand it and I was able to clear the issue and will be working on a better fix. Thanks for the report -- George K5TR

RE: eham: the web resthome of amateur radio	Reply
by PHANTOMFIXER on June 4, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
I find eham to be an island of relative tranquility(other than the flaming ) among the sea of facebooks,my space and so on.People here communicate in sentences, not sound bytes,are reasonably literate and exhibit a degree of personality that is rapidly disappearing from our digital based culture.I find a lot of good information and lively talk here.I'm connected via a slow (40.0Kbps) dial up and it suits my needs just fine.The need for speed has a place,just not everyplace.

eHam: for the working class and the analog	Reply
by WA4D on June 19, 2008	Mail this to a friend!
The responses here by those who consider formating to be "fancy" or "bandwidth hogging" is laughable. The good news is that these people are irrelevant amidst those who live in a fast moving digital lifestyle. Most hams have been left behind by communications technology and more importantly the culture. They are relics of a fast fading analog past and this is the demographic eHam caters to. eHam is condescending by maintaining their Compuserve era infrastructure. It is what Hams deserve. And who they are.

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