(http://www NULL.flickr NULL.com/photos/8989639 null@null N07/1532836181/)There has been a fair amount of discussion around how to grow and improve ham radio as a hobby. Most of the discussion — and much of the same discussion on other life interests — is negative; sometimes more than negative.

You should do this or not include that are the simpler arguments. But a lot of people, without doing anything positive to move things forward, think it is their lot in life (not just in ham radio) to point out why things won’t work.

K0NR posted on his blog (http://www NULL.k0nr NULL.com/blog/) a great response (http://www NULL.k0nr NULL.com/blog/2008/01/paul-rinaldos-rule-of-amateur-radio NULL.html) to this type of approach on progress from WB4APR. It’s direct, of course, but if you sit back and think about the words being said and what the effect is of people who are not moving things forward on those trying, it makes a lot of sense.

My father, an attorney back when it was an honorable profession, said something like this on the subject: I might win or I might lose the case, but at least I’m out in the arena and not a spectator.

Being a person who gets things done is being in the right place in this hobby.

Scot, K9JY

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