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Old March 4th 06, 10:52 PM posted to uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.policy
Brian MW3BAU / 2W0BDW
 
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Default What sort of community do we wish to be and do we wish to be seen to be?


"Plod's Conscience" wrote in message
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A community of technically-motivated adults, discussing
and promoting the technologies of radio communications
and the natural phenomena that underly such communications?

or

A community of Citizens' Banders, acquiring Cheque-Book (CB)
radio equipment without understanding the innards, and to whom
the SWAAAAARRRRRING of a TWIG is a rite of passage typical
of the nonsensical world of make-believe and superstition of the
religionists? (Just how many of their magicians in a garb of white
gowns are needed until the magic starts to work?!)

or

A community of Billies-No-Mates lacking the social graces and
peer companionship of normal well-adjusted adults who go out
of their way to entice young children into their closed shacks, and
then
deceive those children that somehow they are educationally
equipped to be the technical equivalence of Heinrich Hertz despite
that they cannot tell one end of a resistor from the other unless
a crib sheet is present to spoon-feed them?

Oh dear, I've just repaired a SWAR meter for an M3 who bought it at a rally
only to find that it diddn't work.