Darkstar wrote:Too often have i been on 2 mtrs all day and heard nobody, this is a bad state of affairs. In fact i am thinking of jacking it all in and selling up, and spending more time fishing. I have been a tutor for 11 yrs where are all the hams i taught? mostly on mobile phone apps or voip programmes that replicate radio, so what's the point in carrying on?
I am using voip at the moment because you get better QSO's there than on 2 meters & it is moderated, so fewer idiots too. I stopped even listening to 2 meter repeaters years ago & now I only have S20 & a few other 2 FM oddball frequencies in my scanners, as like that, I just get the interesting bits to hear on 2.
The quietness of 2 FM, is in part, because too many have found it's not worth the effort. Why should anyone make an effort to use it, when they can go else where & get what they want?