In article ,
Mike Coslo wrote:

John Smith wrote:
Every student going though the electronics and engineering courses
at the college here knows very well what a ham ticket is (the
instructor is a ham), and darn well pass any of the exams
blindfolded... seldom do they see the need or have the desire when
they have tuned the bands and listened...

You think most other colleges are different?

Dunno. Where I am employed, one of the EE courses specifically ends
in a Ham ticket being received.

My point is that Internet and cell phones are to Ham radio as fish
are to banjos. 8^)

This is starting to sound like an over the air Ham conversation.
Exchanges like this are why I have no desire to be one.

Maybe you could drop rec.radio.shortwave off the newsgroup header like I
did.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California