Filipino Ham Radio Community in MY views. 

• DIVIDED  -  it is sad that we are but it is true.  I think there is a lot of good things that our leaders can do to promote the hobby and be a model for the whole community. The hard and not so good part is we never stand as one.  Our hobby is like no other.  We have a means of getting our communities connected.  We have the best chance of knowing people from most places. I don't know of any other hobby that one can compare to Amateur Radio.
• HIGH, LOW and IN BETWEEN   -  it is sad but it is true.  Some people don't see other Ham Radio operators as equals . This is common on most communities, and a thousand and one views have been written about it but to have this in the Filipino Ham Radio community makes them even worst.  Even the late King Hussein sees everyone in the Ham Radio community as an equal. He even  Insist that he be called as Hussein and not King Hussein.  "In one of the oldest traditions in amateur radio, Hussein upheld that this kinship transverses not only age and nationality, but also between citizen and head of state!"                                                                  
• POOR OPERATORS - it is not hard to know if one needs more training or needs a lot of reading to do when an operator shows a very poor performance in communicating with another fellow Ham Operator. There were rumors years ago about Volunteer examiners giving out licenses for free for a certain fee.  I wish it was never true but I guess it was. What true blue operators need to do is become a mentor to others.  Provide activities that would sharpen their communication skills.  Give everyone a chance to excel and not to keep it to oneself.     
• BIG GUNS MY ASS - please excuse my language, I heard this a number of times from other operators and for me it just meant some guy having too much AIR time.  The problem with this is I guess the AIR is getting to their heads and thinks it to be true to the word.  I can not understand how one can say that with the best equipment available to him and another they still have a conversation even without the propagation,  it is like using the telephone even though the wires are cut. Even cups needs strings for sound to get across.  That I guess is air head talking. Share and give opportunities for other to excel and get noticed. It is sometimes lonely on top of the heap.  
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