Nets and AM. I avoid them like the plague.

I find most nets to be some of the most mind-numbing stuff out there. Most of them have outlived their usefulness, especially the "no traffic" traffic nets. ECARS and the MMSN are just 2 that fall into the useless category, IMHO. I'm also not a big fan of the many WAS nets, having done some time on them when I was a young and naive General. I've since learned that I don't need a crutch to work stations on the air.

The only AM I've ever listened to sounded like it was a 3-martini-minimum crowd. If not martinis, then it was more like a sixpack-of-beer-minimum crowd. Now, to be fair, most of 75m phone sounds like that to me, but the AM guys seem to have egos the size of a Gates transmitter. They're in love with the sound of their own voice, too. AM also reminds be too much of my days spent on CB and I have no desire to listen to the mode again.

If I'm not DXing, or contesting, I'm not on the air much, if at all. Talking about the same shit, with the same 5 guys, 7 days a week, doesn't float my boat.

JMO, YMMV.