> I recently was appointed President of a local large ham radio club.
> Keeping all the various personalities happy can be interesting... of
> course my general response to personality complaints is that people
need
> to be responsible for their own happiness... I'm not going to play
> "repeater cop" beyond keeping the repeaters legal and topics
reasonable
> for an organization with a lot of families and kids that could be
> listening.

I've even hit walls here with keeping the systems legal!
There's that little requirement that you have a control operator.. Well,
the response I get here, is that "we ain't needed that before"... and
"nobody else does it", which is of course bogus.

> There's a group of younger, very active hams bouncing around town on
> various repeater frequencies here (they even feel they've been "kicked
> off" some repeater systems) in Denver, who really aren't harming
> anything, but their topics of conversation and the rapid-fire way they
> use their radios really annoys the hell out of the older hams.

I hear ya, and I'm supposed to be one of those old fogeys! 
(almost 50, grandfather..)

We do classes, and are pulling in some pretty good new players.

Still, one thing I'm glad of, is that there's plenty of activity here,
the repeater is almost always active, or at least there's someone there
to talk to.  I've been to other places, where the local repeaters never
have any activity, and you can call and call and never pick up anyone.


I've just bought a "flying Dutchman" repeater, rebuilding it now.
I'm hoping to move it, all three VHF machines in the county are located
within a mile of each other, and that bothers me a lot. A single severe
weather event could take out all three.




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