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Speaker 1: that someone might avoid amateur radio as a hobby. Now,
Speaker 1: hear a lot of these in comments. I hear a
Speaker 1: lot of responses to social media posts I make. This
Speaker 1: one comes from Reddit. Someone else wrote it, and it
Speaker 1: kind of aligns with what I have been saying in
Speaker 1: some regards. But I'd like to know what you guys
Speaker 1: think about it. So let's read this article real quick.
Speaker 1: One of the many reasons people avoid amateur radio as
Speaker 1: a hobby. So I saw that title, and of course
Speaker 1: I had to take a look and read through this
Speaker 1: because you know, that's that's a catchy title. It's a
Speaker 1: catchy title, and it's not clickbait because he goes on
Speaker 1: to explain several things about why he wrote that. So
Speaker 1: this comes from commercial Underscore school five one seven, okay,
Speaker 1: and Tldrup there at the top says, stupid amateur radio
Speaker 1: operators chase away interested potential amateur radio operators. Now, I
Speaker 1: have said before in many videos that I don't think
Speaker 1: amateur radio is dying. It is changing, it is evolving.
Speaker 1: It's not dying. As we have seen post hurricanes Heelena
Speaker 1: and Milton just here recently. It's actually quite useful in many,
Speaker 1: many situations. So it's not dying. But if anything, because
Speaker 1: you hear sometimes oh DMR is killing Ham radio. FT
Speaker 1: eight's killing him radio, the Internet's killing him radio, all
Speaker 1: these kind of nonsense. If anything was to ever kill
Speaker 1: Ham radio, it would be us, you and I, those
Speaker 1: of us licensed who have a bad attitude. And that's
Speaker 1: what this article is about. So let's take a look.
Speaker 1: So this is this is several pairs paragraphs here, and
Speaker 1: he edits it at the bottom because he's he comes
Speaker 1: back and he reads some comments and he adds that
Speaker 1: edit down there at the bottom. But he says he
Speaker 1: was trained in radio repair in the army at age eighteen.
Speaker 1: He studied to receive a minor and electrical engineering technology
Speaker 1: in his late twenties, three decades of amateur radio under
Speaker 1: my belt. I still have a lot to learn. Okay.
Speaker 1: I was not in the army and I'm not a
Speaker 1: I don't have an EE degree, but I do have
Speaker 1: three decades of manager radio under my belt, and I
Speaker 1: still have a lot to learn. Also, so I know
Speaker 1: where he's coming from here. In the ensuing decades, I've
Speaker 1: done both network engineering and security engineering, and am currently
Speaker 1: a solutions architect. I'm well aware of the features, cost benefits,
Speaker 1: technologies and how they've changed. He bought two radios at
Speaker 1: the same time, the Radiotity GD eighty eight and the
Speaker 1: Vero VGCN seventy six, signed up for both Facebook groups. Okay,
Speaker 1: and the first comment is the best write down here.
Speaker 1: He's like, Facebook groups, found your problem, and he's right,
Speaker 1: this guy KC two syk. He's he's right, that's his
Speaker 1: problem is Facebook groups. But let's go on. I've had
Speaker 1: problems with the software that controls the VGC in seventy six. Now,
Speaker 1: this is a neat radio that I've seen a couple
Speaker 1: other YouTubers do videos about. I don't have one of
Speaker 1: those in my hand yet, but after reading what he
Speaker 1: says about it, and seeing a couple of videos. I
Speaker 1: should probably order one of these and do my own
Speaker 1: video about it. He said he had problems with the
Speaker 1: firmer on the GD eighty eight. The GD eighty eight
Speaker 1: I do have. The first one I got was really fubar.
Speaker 1: I sent it back to Radiodity. They sent me another one,
Speaker 1: and I haven't made a video with it yet because
Speaker 1: he's right, the firmer's a little wonky on it, but
Speaker 1: it's not a bad radio. I should probably circle back
Speaker 1: through that one one of these days, he says. First,
Speaker 1: the VGC, when I saw demo what you can do
Speaker 1: with it, I thought it would be a great tool
Speaker 1: to have for aries use. It has a built in
Speaker 1: twelve hundred bod TNC. You can Bluetooth connect to handheld
Speaker 1: and use the TNC. This means I could use radio
Speaker 1: mail on my iPad form wind link. That's one use case.
Speaker 1: The app just called HT in the app store. It's
Speaker 1: the same the VGC in seventy five hundred has an
Speaker 1: app in the app Store called just HT. It's a
Speaker 1: dumb name, but that's what they call it. And the
Speaker 1: app has built in the ability to handle SSTV that
Speaker 1: I did not know this would be useful for the
Speaker 1: disaster response because I could take a picture of my
Speaker 1: phone immediately transmit it via SSTV. Hmm over VHF. Interesting Okay,
Speaker 1: I found out I was sold a bill of goods.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he means by that. This app
Speaker 1: I saw used? What? Oh, I remember what he means
Speaker 1: by that. Now? This app I saw used was using
Speaker 1: features that are only available in Android apps. I can't
Speaker 1: expert configurations to a CSV or in the iOS app.
Speaker 1: I can't send SSTV using the app, so maybe it's
Speaker 1: Android only. Okay. The app has a hard time keeping
Speaker 1: the configuration straight, loses changes parts. I posted this in
Speaker 1: the Facebook group the issues I was having and made
Speaker 1: some recommendations of possible solutions. Then a helpful forum member
Speaker 1: entered the chat. He informed me that I needed to
Speaker 1: not waste their time with my feature requests because he
Speaker 1: knew more about feature complexity than I did, regardless of
Speaker 1: it being my job. The guy he's talking about didn't
Speaker 1: know his job, probably, but there's no cause to be rude,
Speaker 1: and that the manufacturer needed to handle the broken stuff.
Speaker 1: That's right. He didn't see nonfunctionality as broken because it
Speaker 1: didn't impact him. He knows what I need and he's
Speaker 1: not afraid to dictate it. I tried to reason with
Speaker 1: the ignorant I know better, but I tried. I left
Speaker 1: the forum after being shown the admin was of the
Speaker 1: same mind. They were always right, regardless of the facts. Okay,
Speaker 1: and then he starts to talk about the GD eighty
Speaker 1: eight radio. So a couple of notes there. Number one,
Speaker 1: I could talk about the difference between Android and iOS
Speaker 1: and I think you guys know where If you've never
Speaker 1: watched my channel before, maybe you don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: like Apple. I don't like Apple products. They're limited. Android
Speaker 1: gives you a lot more stuff. Now, we could talk
Speaker 1: about that all day. A lot of you will probably
Speaker 1: disagree with me, Okay, but it is Ask any app developer.
Speaker 1: It is harder to get app updates, to get apps
Speaker 1: added to the iOS story, and get app updates in
Speaker 1: the iOS store because of extra hoops that Apple makes
Speaker 1: you jump through Android place to where Google place stoard
Speaker 1: is not that difficult, so the Google app. When I
Speaker 1: first got my first VGC ht VG, I don't remember
Speaker 1: as the ht or the mobile radio. My first VGC radio,
Speaker 1: it did not have an iOS app at all. So
Speaker 1: I assume that the iOS version of the app today,
Speaker 1: since it's in both places, is probably not as mature,
Speaker 1: not as old, not as futuristic as the Android app,
Speaker 1: because the Android app has been around longer. Be that good, bad,
Speaker 1: or ugly. I'm not saying. I'm just saying it's the fact,
Speaker 1: So probably not now, Yes, it should. I mean the
Speaker 1: guy in the forum should have come in and said
Speaker 1: he should have been nicer. He should have just been
Speaker 1: more welcoming and nicer and that kind of thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that type of attitude. But serious
Speaker 1: note on this. Part of the problem is that you're
Speaker 1: on a Facebook group. I'm not even on any Facebook
Speaker 1: groups anymore because I got my account hacked and I
Speaker 1: never got it back, not yet anyway, and I have
Speaker 1: another account now. But I haven't even joined any face
Speaker 1: Book groups for hamd Radio because a lot of them
Speaker 1: are like that, this is just a Facebook thing. Join
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Speaker 1: me on Discord, ask questions anything you want to. I'm
Speaker 1: in there, but there's a lot of other people in
Speaker 1: there that are helpful as well. A lot of the
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Speaker 1: helpful and you can get your questions answered and have
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Speaker 1: radio learning journey. So then he goes on to talk
Speaker 1: about and this is a different Facebook group. He calls
Speaker 1: him a forum, but I assume he's talking about Facebook groups.
Speaker 1: The GD eighty eight forum. I explained how the purchase
Speaker 1: of a how purchase of a single cable could make
Speaker 1: it so you can use the GD eighty eight to
Speaker 1: do SSTV regardless of being Android or iOS user. I
Speaker 1: explain how to use APRS app and the cable to
Speaker 1: overcome the GPS issue that the most recent firmware update broke,
Speaker 1: regardless of OS. Okay, cool, I'd like to know that myself.
Speaker 1: How are you using the cable to overcome that? Email
Speaker 1: meet case five hwbtgmail dot com. I explained how win
Speaker 1: link and the OS appropriate app worked with the cable
Speaker 1: on the GD eighty eight, and that if the creators
Speaker 1: of whin link added to virtual T and C. I
Speaker 1: think he's saying that it would work if when Link
Speaker 1: would add virtual TNC. I don't know if when Link
Speaker 1: would add GD eighty eight to their software. Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't understand that statement. The same person
Speaker 1: from the previous form that I unsubscribed from helpfully told
Speaker 1: me to get rid of that piece of junk GD
Speaker 1: eighty eight and get the b tech version of the VGC. Arrogant,
Speaker 1: self centered I have all the answers without even knowing
Speaker 1: the use case. Stupid people, simple as definition, people that
Speaker 1: do things that benefit neither themselves nor other people, are
Speaker 1: imposing on other amateurs and protector amateurs so much. The
Speaker 1: best way to avoid these helpful individuals is to not
Speaker 1: be associated with this hobby. Go buy an Xbox instead.
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that statement. I don't agree. I
Speaker 1: would agree with most everything this user saying. I don't
Speaker 1: agree with that statement. The best way to avoid these
Speaker 1: helpful individuals is not be associated with the hobby. Do
Speaker 1: not let some jackwagon. Do not let some Facebook admin. Okay,
Speaker 1: on Facebook, the literally the worst social media platform in existence.
Speaker 1: Do not let Facebook admin jackwagon take away your ability,
Speaker 1: or your right, or your freedom to do it, or
Speaker 1: your enjoyment of amateur radio. Don't let them win in
Speaker 1: that regard. That's what I would say to that. And
Speaker 1: he comes back here and he said his edit. He goes,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate the comments of concern for me. Thanks.
Speaker 1: I'd like to point out, get ready, for the first
Speaker 1: time you'll have heard this on Reddit, it's not about me. Okay,
Speaker 1: this story really isn't about me. I'm trying to explain
Speaker 1: that I'm concerned for newly licensed hands or people just
Speaker 1: entering the hobby, They're going to get chased away. And
Speaker 1: he's not wrong. He is not wrong. I'd rather they weren't.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that if I keep posting these things, maybe
Speaker 1: some people will go to these Facebook groups, find my
Speaker 1: post and ad comments not to insulting one. Hey, I
Speaker 1: heard about this, came in, looked it up firsthand, and
Speaker 1: see what happened. If I'm right, then the others involved
Speaker 1: may get enough constructive feedback to change. They'll reduce attrition.
Speaker 1: If I'm wrong, you'll see firsthand. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think you're gonna do it
Speaker 1: that way, because there is such a thing as QRZ
Speaker 1: forum and qrzed forums are worse than Facebook. I'm it
Speaker 1: has been my experience. But join us on discord. Like
Speaker 1: I said a minute ago. So yeah, so the comments
Speaker 1: here Facebook group found the problem. Facebook is the worst.
Speaker 1: That is probably true. There's nothing less social than social media,
Speaker 1: that's true. Like that, This is good comment here, a
Speaker 1: comment here. The usual advice for this hobby is spend
Speaker 1: the doll and move on. It's usually the best course
Speaker 1: of action. People like that, get off on being the
Speaker 1: biggest know it all in the room and actively seek
Speaker 1: out people they can belittle, don't give them the attention
Speaker 1: they want, and just go elsewhere. It's unfortunately the same person.
Speaker 1: What's on both forums. There are lots of other places
Speaker 1: you can go. I mean you're here, for example, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're on Reddit. Okay, cool. The unfortunate truth is that
Speaker 1: these types of people are more often found in these
Speaker 1: types of hobbies. It's not just radio block them, ignore them,
Speaker 1: go somewhere else, don't engage them. Once you realize that
Speaker 1: you're who you're dealing with. I hope you get your
Speaker 1: issues sorted out. Software is the biggest spot in the
Speaker 1: amateur radio these days. You're not alone bubble. So there's
Speaker 1: some other good there's some other good comments in here,
Speaker 1: quite a few, actually quite a few comments on this,
Speaker 1: because that's a it's just to catch you title. It's
Speaker 1: just to catch you title talking about how we we
Speaker 1: the group of us, you and I the group of
Speaker 1: us as hammer radio operators. We get to determine how
Speaker 1: welcomed newcomers feel in the hobby, whether they just discovered
Speaker 1: what amateur ready is and they start reading forum posts
Speaker 1: Reddit articles, or they're watching this video right here. We
Speaker 1: get to determine that. Okay, And let me just tell
Speaker 1: you something, and I've said this before too, I feel
Speaker 1: like people who act like that are all on the internet.
Speaker 1: They're not on the air. You're not going to meet
Speaker 1: people like that on the air. You actually can meet
Speaker 1: people like that on the air if you know where
Speaker 1: to look and you just avoid those two or three
Speaker 1: or four different frequencies, and then ninety nine point nine
Speaker 1: percent of the time you will not meet people like
Speaker 1: that on the air, not on repeaters, not on HF,
Speaker 1: not over the air, not over simplex nowhere. Okay, these
Speaker 1: guys hang out on the internet and they troll people.
Speaker 1: And if you're an admin of a Facebook group, you
Speaker 1: probably Yeah. I've been the admin of a Facebook group
Speaker 1: before I lost all my Facebook groups when I lost
Speaker 1: my Facebook account. I don't miss them, okay. In fact,
Speaker 1: my Ham Radio two point zero Facebook group I for
Speaker 1: the last year and a half that I had it,
Speaker 1: I was telling people, we're in discord, Join us in discord,
Speaker 1: don't I don't post here anymore, Join us in discord,
Speaker 1: Join us in discord. So Ham Radio two dot com,
Speaker 1: forward slash discord. That's where you need to be right
Speaker 1: now or read it. Reddit can be good too. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of helpful people on Reddit. But Reddit still
Speaker 1: social media kind of well, it's still a website. Have
Speaker 1: you ever been treated that? If you're watching this video,
Speaker 1: have you ever been treated this way? Have you ever?
Speaker 1: Can you name a story or an example of where
Speaker 1: someone else, you saw someone else do that behave this
Speaker 1: way perhaps to you, perhaps to someone new better yet,
Speaker 1: share with me a story where someone was looking for
Speaker 1: help and actually got it on the internet, because that
Speaker 1: happens too. That happens too. Share with me your good
Speaker 1: and bad stories in the comments section below. Thanks for
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