I guess that this is always an interesting issue. Do you belittle people to make them change or do you give them corrective help by instructive comments? Ted, what do you feel is the best approach? What has been your experience in the past? Do you think that it helps you to feel better when you can make others feel bad about something they are failing at, or do you think it makes you feel better when you help people be successful at something that they seem to have no ability to improve at?
I generally find I feel better when I can be helpful because then the people I help, feel better because they are successful, and I feel better because they tell me thank you instead of posting on a list of my peers to tell me and everyone else how unhelpful I've been.
Ted, what are your thoughts?
Gregg W5GGW
On 2/1/2011 9:23 PM, Ted wrote:
Well, Kevin complain away...I'm the one that commented about 11 Meters. If you don't have a sense of humor, maybe you need another hobby. After about 2 days of your absolutely terrible 'audio'/CB style feedback, I could not restrain myself. Get over it. Since you were obviously duplex and aware of your condition, you should have stayed off the air until you fixed it!
So, with that said, I need your grid and you need mine, so see you on SO-67 in a bit.
73, Ted, K7TRK
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Deane Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 6:00 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] CH-19 11 Meters
Hello alll,I would just like to see if there was anyone that would like to comment on someones childish coments over the air on the AO-51 this weekend. Being new at this I did have some feedback on my transmissions. I corrected the problem with some headphones. I am saying flat out that the "CH19 few channels down" and "11 Meters check in now" and " get a real radio" were unprofessional and certainly uncalled for. I doubt that the person making these comments will step up now, I just wanted to see if anyone had the guts to comment on this. I know that others heard this. The person guilty of this childish behaviour, at the time stated "Hey ----- So-67 in 4 hours" I was on that pass and made a couple contacts, but do to the different audio was unable to identify this child. I did hear some dead keys, may or may not have been directed towards me.
This kind of thing is unacceptable to me and if I get the call sign of anyone doing these things I will report it.
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