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Originally Posted by Andy N1ORK
Just think if ... companies would ... pay money for advertising during a DXpedition ... I think ... I would quit ...
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Yeccch. Me, too. We agree, but I'm more extreme.
It'd be like what has happened to the Internet. Almost any web site nowadays has, in each page, a couple hundred bytes of actual on-topic text and
megabytes of obnoxious ads. Pages that should load in a second take sometimes several minutes, only because they load (some of them) fifty or a hundred ads to go with a couple dozen words of content. It's most destructive.
Thank goodness, it hasn't happened to most aspects of ham radio (although QST for example seems about 75% ads). But if those people prevail who want to increase the number of hams without limit, dumbing down the tests to do it, it will happen. I'm fortunate -- too old to last that long.
Remember when Christmas was just Christmas? Nah, we're both too young to remember that.