Not that long ago, in a parallel dimension of the Ether, a website called the “Island of Misfit Hams” was established as an alternative to “Fred-co” by a group of Amateur Radio enthusiast whose intelligence's and sensitivities were being insulted by low-brow sycophantic appliance operators.

While, we had the radio hobby in common, our group had ideologies and lifestyles that were not consistent with the day-to-day Rag-chewer “Over Yonder.”

For the longest time, the situation was “Them-against-us” while, we sat back and derided the hypocrisy of the Moderation, the self aggrandizement of “The WIK”, “The Gym Teacher” and, the other Wizards of knowledge who stunk up the place.

As people aged, and the websites evolved, boats from the mainland bought more tourists to our happy little island, in fact, at one time, a land bridge seemed to form allowing all manner of stray dogs and cats and feral creatures to invade our paradise; we needed an “Invasive species act” to keep the riff-raff/floatsum and jettison at bay.

The IOMH has always offered a refuge to free thinkers and progressives. The Island has always open it’s beaches to all and made them welcome, websites thrive on new blood and ideas; but that doesn't mean that they (the newcomers) had a pass to stay when they became un-neighborly.

As good as things can seem from the outside, there can be problems behind the curtains; we on the Island found ourselves in that position after unexpected situations cause change in hosting and ownership. To stay afloat technically, changes had to be made on the back-end of the site; certainly if this site was running ads and selling subscriptions we could have farmed the job out but, we don’t.

Although we have many members capable of technically administrating the site, those people had no time or desire to take on the task. One of the newcomers offered to attend to the task and, the ownership took him up on his offer.

As a member only entering from the front door, I am grateful on one hand and 4 fingers that the site has managed to stay afloat but, the atmosphere and climate has changed; to be candid, loyal members with years of time here have deserted The Island because of the effects of the Invasive Species.

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