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W2IRT

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Re: eHam DX Forum Then and Now: a Retrospective
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2023, 12:01:34 PM »

I took a break from here for a lot of years and it is not the same as it was, it used to be better, now it's just people fighting about FT8
This forum is old bald white male baby boomers and older generations arguing over a comb. Younger and better educated generations want nothing to do with it. This site is dying like the hobby. The site owner knows it is just a liability generating no cash. There are no upgrades in the future. Just a matter of time until the lights go out.

These are quite valid statements, unfortunately. The problem that this forum solves is that it's in a centralized location rather than on regular social media. Facebook groups are scattered to the winds and tend to grow so unwieldy that they can get out of hand, with hundreds of posts per day, and individual threads that are difficult to track. There isn't really a sense of community that we have here.

Personally I'd like to see a DX-centric web forum that doesn't look like it went live in 1993, that caters to a wider audience of DXers, and with sub-forums specifically targeted to those with high country counts, a needs forum, a tech forum, DXpeditioners and DXpedition-chasing topics, a welcome mat for new DXers, and just general chat like we have here. Unfortunately this place can turn into a bit of a vipers' nest at times, and we've lost more than a handful of name-brand DXers/DXPeditioners who have gotten tired of the same infighting and BS that crops up each time there's big DXpedition. Is there a solution to this? I hope so.
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Re: eHam DX Forum Then and Now: a Retrospective
« Reply #16 on: February 20, 2023, 12:36:25 PM »

I belong to a professional forum which I moderate with over 1 million members with over 500 post per day and growing for the last 20 years. 

A forum that you moderate? I can see it now...

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Re: eHam DX Forum Then and Now: a Retrospective
« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2023, 04:24:11 PM »

Boy, that forum statement is full of contradictions-like you have to be woke but tolerate insults.
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Re: eHam DX Forum Then and Now: a Retrospective
« Reply #18 on: February 20, 2023, 04:41:11 PM »

This forum is old bald white male baby boomers and older generations arguing over a comb. Younger and better educated generations want nothing to do with it.
Uh oh... what does the fact that I'm active in this forum say about me?  ;D ;D

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KJ4Z

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Re: eHam DX Forum Then and Now: a Retrospective
« Reply #19 on: February 20, 2023, 04:46:37 PM »

This forum is old bald white male baby boomers and older generations arguing over a comb. Younger and better educated generations want nothing to do with it.
Uh oh... what does the fact that I'm active in this forum say about me?  ;D ;D

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Mason - KM4SII

There's a few of us who are neither bald nor Boomer.  Nor even Gen X!  Let's see, there's you, there's me, there's... umm...
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Re: eHam DX Forum Then and Now: a Retrospective
« Reply #20 on: February 20, 2023, 06:10:21 PM »

The guy spewing "old white men" and "boomer this and that," appears to be in his 60s. If he is, he's a baby boomer and I'm not. Baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. I was born in 1945, two days after Hirohito formally surrendered to MacArthur. So I'm in the Silent Generation. And I'm not bald, but wouldn't mind if I was considering the price of a haircut here is 20 bucks, double what it was not long ago.
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Re: eHam DX Forum Then and Now: a Retrospective
« Reply #21 on: February 20, 2023, 06:22:47 PM »

Boy, that forum statement is full of contradictions-like you have to be woke but tolerate insults.

Well, everything there is from the rhetoric in AI5BC's posts. Here's an additional line...

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Re: eHam DX Forum Then and Now: a Retrospective
« Reply #22 on: February 20, 2023, 07:38:37 PM »

 If you look at a certain photo on his QRZ page you can see why he's so grumpy all the time..............I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole!!!  :)  :)
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Re: eHam DX Forum Then and Now: a Retrospective
« Reply #23 on: February 20, 2023, 08:20:58 PM »

i did a video on the 3y0j expediton over 1 000 views and the demographic all male aged 55-65 lmao.

you did forget one dxpedition k1n navassa that would have been interesting the all the us stations working them and us outsiders only getting 1 qso on the last day when they remembered vk  :D

i'm sad the forums are moving to fb which doesnt protect the great info like forums have.

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Re: eHam DX Forum Then and Now: a Retrospective
« Reply #24 on: February 20, 2023, 10:53:34 PM »


There's a few of us who are neither bald nor Boomer.  Nor even Gen X!  Let's see, there's you, there's me, there's... umm...

I am here-full head of hair.  Born after the baby boom.

73 John AF5CC
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Re: eHam DX Forum Then and Now: a Retrospective
« Reply #25 on: February 20, 2023, 11:03:16 PM »

>and us outsiders only getting 1 qso on the last day when they remembered vk  :D<
That applies to many DXpeditions. You forgot to add to "when they remembered VK, and didn't know where to turn their beam."
I don't go for all this generational label stuff. It's about as relevant as a Horoscope. You were born in this star sign, therefore you are like that, blah blah.
Wishing the 3Y0J team fair sailing for the rest of their journey.
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KJ4Z

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Re: eHam DX Forum Then and Now: a Retrospective
« Reply #26 on: February 20, 2023, 11:08:55 PM »

I am here-full head of hair.  Born after the baby boom.

73 John AF5CC

Good to know, lol.  That's three, then.  I agree with VK3HJ, it's all pretty silly.
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Re: eHam DX Forum Then and Now: a Retrospective
« Reply #27 on: February 21, 2023, 10:57:20 PM »

I used the works erinaceous and sialoquent no fewer than 283 times in the 3Y0J thread. I wonder why they were not represented in the 3Y0J Most Commonly Used Words?   

                                                                        Tom KH0/KC0W

But I thought it was part of the DX Code of Conduct to "Eschew Obfuscation"?
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Re: eHam DX Forum Then and Now: a Retrospective
« Reply #28 on: February 23, 2023, 01:54:24 PM »


This forum...



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