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W1GUH
05-25-2009, 10:35 PM
Literally and specifically...

In the spring of 1970, there was something called the National Student Information Net that sprang up spontaneously to exchange information between college campuses about what was going on. It, of course, was controversial, and resulted in much heated debate in the Amateur Radio community.

There was a thread about this over on the 'zed about this:

http://forums.qrz.com/archive/index.php/t-130999.html

The ARRL even devoted their editorial about it in the July, 1970 issue of QST. I regret that I cannot provide a link to that, but if you have access to that issue of QST it makes very interesting reading. So do the letters you can read in the September, 1970 issue of QST.

And one very, very interesting thing is this...

Go to the link above, and in the reply from WB2WIK, you see who one of the net control stations was.

I'm posting this because the points raised in the July, 1970 issue of QST are exactly the same debate going on today about the issues. In other words, we, as people have not grown or learned anything at all in the 39 years that have elapsed since then.

That sucks and disgusts me. I would love to have a discussion about why the two sides have found it so impossible to learn from each other and figure out that digging in our heels and calling each other names is not the way to go. What say you?

If I can get legal permission to quote the editorial and letters in their entirety I will post them. Until that happens, all I can do is cite the issues of QST as I have.

:-?:

W1GUH
05-25-2009, 11:36 PM
But, I think that the quoting of one letter is OK...considering its contents...



The student strike of last May and the NSIN occurred during extremely emotional times. Unfortunately, when people get emotional, they get carried away sometimes. The NSIN was not meant to be political, but did turn out that way. I half expected to see an outright condemnation of it in the next issue of QST; how surprised I was at the fairness of the editorial!

That letter was in the Correspondence from Members in the Sept., 1970 issue of QST.

Hams can really get it right sometimes.