an old friend wrote:
Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
No "CW" test is needed to use a cell phone. :-)
No, Len, it isn't. No license exam at all is required. You are
qualified to use a cell phone. If you want to work some DX, you are
free to see how far from a tower you can be and still make one work.
cut the **** dave you just can accept the free speech belongs to him
and me
Heil MUST interject and snarl some sarcasm into any no-code-
test advocates' posting to another. He can't understand any
radio system that isn't done via the amateur radio way, "his"
way.
As a matter of fact, last year on a return auto trip from the
midwest, my wife used our cell phone all along the highways
from Iowa into Nevada, talking to her sister in Washington
state, inquiring of and making reservations at new motels
along the way, catching up on e-mail by getting them through
the cell phone as audio...all from inside the car. No problems,
no drop-outs.
Any cellular telephone in the USA has the capability of direct-
dialing any other telephone, including foreign countries which
have direct dialing to their subscribers' numbers. That's a
plain and simple fact. Amateur radio can't do that anywhere
in the world 24/7; cell phones can. That's another plain and
simple fact. Each cell phone is a two-way radio, an "HT,"
but full-duplex instead of the ham half-duplex HT.
But, Heil MUST sound off like he is "superior" in radio so he
does postings, many postings, editing quotes to fit his
attack agenda du jour. That's okay, though, he is an amateur
extra morseman and they seem to be exempt in behavior;
us no-code-test advocates are NOT exempt, must play the
role of boys from some absurd version of "Oliver Twist."
[Heil tries to be a little dickens...]