Crikey the #RadCom letters page, where to start! Climate change denial, FT8 is the death of amateur radio, it’s not “real radio”… “Sorry but…”. as if The Only Right Way To Communicate Is Via A Pre-Information-Theory Mode! “There’s no activity … we had a great operation with over 6,400 human mode contacts” - invalidating his point. I agree there are fewer band users now, but there are many other factors contributing to this decline.

The #radcom letters page is always a nutter magnet, but this month—now that antennagate is over—we have the holy trinity of

✅ climate change denial;
✅ #FT8 hate-whinging; and
✅ a healthy smattering of ‘sorry but…’.

Is #QST the same? Enquiring minds need to know!

#amateurradio #hamradio #nimby

The #rsgb must be trying a novel approach to attracting youth to #hamradio: printing conspiracy theory-ladden letters to the editor of #radcom 🙄 In this month's issue: global warming is just a hoax, and WiFi routers are, for some inexplicable reason, bad.

After the antenna vs aerial nonsense, and the current wave vs cycle rubbish (which I’m not convinced isn’t a wind-up), what could I write to #radcom about to really get the dictionary-bashers angry? #fridayfun #amateurradio

#RSGB: ‘we’re a forward-thinking organisation championing the leading edge of technology!’

Also RSGB: ‘please buy this CD of our printed magazine’

#RadCom

There’s some choice nonsense in the letters section of #RadCom this month. Even more so than usual.

‘[The Yaesu FT-710] is broadly aimed as a budget class radio’ — #radcom

£1059.

#hamradio

I'm following up an article in RadCom March 2018 p17-18 on the design of an #OCFD hexical dipole by G8NDL. It refers to two prev articles in the "Antennas Column":
- RadCom April 2017 - pages 30-31
- RadCom October 2017 - pages 29-33

If anyone has easy access to these, I'd appreciate a PDF or photo as I can't find these in NZ & sadly these issues from aren't available from #RSGB website.

My email address is correct in QRZ.com. Thanks de ZL2GX

#hamradio #amateurradio #radcom

“Is the QSL Bureau needed - electronic bureaux are more efficient”, sure, but they’re bland. Once you’ve reduced everything to an efficiency metric, you’ve removed the humanity from it. I can see the number of verified contacts I make increasing, which is nice - but actually receiving a card from a distant place is much nicer; it adds value. #RadCom #HamRadio #QSL

@markpentler I was wondering what that was about until my postman called this morning. It looks like a bunch of Daily Fail readers got up in the arms about the prospect of people who aren't white middle-aged men joining the hobby. 🙄 #rsgb #radcom