业余无线电不可忽视的真相
这是K3NG网站上一篇小作文，全文没有连贯的段落，但句句表达到位。K3NG是开源的Arduino CW Keyer的作者。
DXCC is bought with weeks, months, and years of your life.
DXCC积分是用你几年、几月、几周的命买的。
Contesting is a battle of bank accounts and who can neglect their family life the most without getting divorced and financially taken to the cleaners more than they are building a contest station.
比赛比的不是谁的比赛台建的好，比的是银行账户、比谁更不顾家，还能不被老婆扫地出门。
Wayne Green was a nutcase.
韦恩·格林是个疯子。 （ 他说的这个人是前CQ杂志的主编，呼号W2NSD，2013年SK，曾经参与跟ARRL和CQ杂志的纷争）
ARRL is a publications company with a side gig in amateur radio advocacy.
ARRL是个出版公司，宣传业余无线电是它的兼职。
Amateur radio Emcomm is a relic of the 1950s.
业余无线电应急通信是上世纪50年代的遗物。
Regenerative receivers are great if you have three hands.
如果你有三只手，再生接收机是个好东西
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Contesting ruins everything. Emcomm ruins everything else.
比赛毁了一切，应急通信毁了其他一切。
NVIS is just another name for using a lousy low antenna that shoots most of its power straight up.
NVIS只是用了效果很差的低天线的另一个叫法，把大部分功率直接向上发射了。
End Fed Halfwave antennas are not special. The only good quality they have is they’re easy to erect.
端馈半波天线没啥特别的 ， 唯一的优点就是好立起来。
If Elecraft announced a black box for sale, it would get hundreds of pre-orders. Stunning reviews of the black box would show up in social media the next day. The black box would start shipping five years after the first announcement.
如果Elecraft说要发售一个黑匣子，估计能有几百人预订，第二天社交媒体上充斥着 惊人的评测…… 最后那黑匣子要等五年才能发货。
The only replacement for the Yaesu FT-817 is another FT-817.
唯一能取代YAESU FT-817 的设备是另一台FT-817
If you have a really old Kenwood HF rig that still works, sell it before it stops working.
如果你有一台还能工作的老建伍短波机，趁他还没坏之前赶快卖掉。
If your contester friends think you're a formidable and highly respectable contester, everyone else in amateur radio thinks you're a jerk.
如果玩比赛的朋友认为你是一个强大而备受尊敬的选手，那其他业余无线电爱好者会认为你是个混蛋。
If you think you're going to change ARRL, you’re not. If you really think someone else is going to change ARRL, they’re really not going to. ARRL does not do change and works to expel anyone for the organization who thinks they will change it.
如果你认为你能改变ARRL，那你别了。如果你真的认为有人会改变ARRL，他们真不会的。ARRL不仅不会改变，还会努力为组织去排挤任何认为能改变它的人。
There are more people upset with those wanting to remove CW from the bands than there are actual people wanting to remove CW from the bands.
因打算从频率中排除CW而感到不满的人，比实际想要排除CW的人更多。
The code test didn’t make smart radio amateurs, it made people who learned the code to pass a test.
摩尔斯码考试没有培养出聪明的业余无线电爱好者，而是培养出为了通过考试而学习摩尔斯码的人。
Winlink 2000 was appropriately named for the year it should have been deprecated.
Winlink 2000 的名字恰如其分地表达了它应该被淘汰的年份。
CW is not a dying mode. AM, on the other hand….
CW不是快灭绝的模式，AM才是……
Most of the biggest jerks in amateur radio passed a code test.
大多数业余无线电的大混蛋都通过了摩尔斯码考试。
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Old boat anchors are nostalgic, but if you're thinking of buying one to "relive the golden age of amateur radio" or whatever, you're going to be seriously disappointed. The performance of old rigs sucks.
老船锚是怀旧的，但如果你打算买个能“重温业余无线电的黄金时代”或类似的啥东西，你会非常失望。旧设备的性能很差。
Amateur radio blogs are really boring. Amateur radio podcasts and YouTube videos are even more boring, though not as boring as an ECARS net.
业余无线电博客真的很无聊。业余无线电播客和YouTube视频更无聊，但都不如ECARS台网更无聊。（ECRAS，东海岸业余台网）
Preppers are parasites that contribute nothing to the radio art and don’t belong in amateur radio.
预备志愿者是寄生虫，对无线电艺术毫无贡献，不应出现在业余无线电中。
Amateur radio clubs are always three meetings away from someone pissing off half the members and causing everyone to quit the club and/or go form another club.
业余无线电俱乐部一般不出三次大会，就能出现某人惹毛了一半儿人、或者某人退出、另立了个俱乐部。
Amateur radio clubs are two people who do everything and fifty other people who have opinions and “great ideas” and do nothing to implement them.
业余无线电俱乐部是：两个干了所有事的人，和另外五十个有观点和“伟大的想法”、却从来不动手干的人。
89% of the time in MARS nets is used for identifying.
在MARS网络中，89%的时间用于识别。
ARRL is a case study in how not to do IT, social media, transparency, and organizational governance.
ARRL是一个很好的案例——关于如何不做信息化、社交媒体、透明度和组织治理。
If you’re concerned that you won’t be sure if someone you’re having a QSO with likes Trump, guns, or religion, don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
如果你担心你不确定正在跟你QSO的人是否喜欢特朗普、枪支或宗教，别担心，他们会告诉你。
ARRL is not the association for promoting amateur radio, it’s the association for promoting ARRL.
ARRL并不是推广业余无线电的协会，而是推广ARRL自己的协会。
The purpose of being a member of ECARS or MidCARS is being a member of ECARS or MidCARS.
成为ECARS或MidCARS会员的目的，就是成为ECARS或MidCARS的会员。（ MidCARS，中西部业余台网 ）
Any sentence that includes the words “real ham” or “real ham radio” is total bullshit, including this sentence.
任何包含“真正的火腿”或“真正的业余无线电”的话都是胡说八道，包括我这句话。
Amateur radio doesn't have a growth or lack of youth problem, it has a culture problem.
业余无线电的问题，不是增长、不是缺年轻人，而是文化。
原文在K3NG的网站：https://blog.radioartisan.com/inconvenient-truths-in-amateur-radio/
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