Surprisingly, we get relativley little hate mail. When we do, though – it’s usually from people who have more balls behind the keyboard than in real life. This letter came to us from someone who felt pissed off enough to write us, but didn’t feel he needed to leave us his name or callsign. Here’s his message – nothing too serious, yet another person who lets the idea of Hamsexy go about 10 feet over their heads.
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Hamsexy,
I have to say that I am very disappointed in the content of your site. [Uh oh… This letter isn’t starting off well] While I agree that hams tend to be old, fat, beer bellied guys and that in general the image of hams need to be cleaned up, I also see why the ARRL does not promote your site as well as other ham organizations. [We never expected or wanted the ARRL to promote us… Where did you get that idea?]
Comments in poor taste, porn pictures in the posts, and this is from the sysops of the site as well? Come on. What is that about? [You are either an old man, or 15 years old. I think the latter. Either way, I’m betting you’ve never been popular] If I want to see that kind of crap I can go to plenty of other sites. [Then do it!] You guys live in a denial if you think that anyone that would run a site such as yours, [But we do run a site such as this.. oh wait, there’s more] thinks that you somehow have a better image than some of the other hams you poke fun at. If you guys want to improve the image of hams then clean up the site and make a solid image of hams for people to see but as it stands now [If you’re still reading at this point, this sure is one FUCKING long sentence] I won’t be re-visiting your site again and I agree also and will be an active participant in siding with the ARRL’s view that your site is anti-ham [I think you should get rid of that Yugoslavian keyboard… you know, the one without any punctuation keys…] and does nothing for hams but give us more of a bad rep in the public’s view. ,b>[WOW! That was a long one! Whew!] If you want to change something for the better you need to be part of the solution – NOT be part of the problem. [Some of our site’s biggest supporters come from the ARRL – we got lots of ARRL officials visiting our booth at Dayton, telling us that they love the site. And I’m not sure what you’re talking about… the ARRL has never even MENTIONED our site in any official publications, much less expressed an opinion about it. I guess you’re assuming that the collective ARRL are as big of a prude as you are.]
Thanks for putting another blotch on hams for us to over come in thepublic’s viewpoint. [You’re welcome!] I sincerely hope that the Hamsexy site changes for the better in the future. [So do we, just not in any way that you’d agree with] You can poke fun at our ham weirdness, clean up the ham image, and have fun with out questionable content and just all out poor taste. [Thanks for the permission] Your site does have a lot of potential to make the Ham Radio image
better. [No it doesn’t] I sincerely wish all you guys at Hamsexy the best and hope that I will be able to support you in the future. [Trust me, we will never see eye to eye]
Sorry for the delay, folks – but here’s the check-in roster from last Wednesday’s Hamsexy Net:
We present to you Anthony AE2NY (formerly W8ANT…. yes – the same guy who told an Air Force C-130 to go pound sand when they tried to check into a SATERN emergency net during Hurricane Katrina), proving that the license an amateur does not make. 
