On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 13:10:59 -0000, "gareth"
wrote:

"highlandham" wrote in message
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On 15/03/15 10:49, gareth wrote:
In my book, the _REAL_ radio amateur is someone who relishes
a technical challenge and the route to solving it, an approach resulting
from an insatiable curiosity about how things work, in contrast to
the CBer-masquerading-as-a-radio amateur who is a non-technical
appliance operator.

Thus, it is the pursuit of a goal that is more rewarding than the goal
itself, and when one project is finished, apart from a short session
on the air to evaluate its efficacy, it is on to the next project. (In my
case, still keeping
a log book although no longer required to do so, I am only half way
through my second log book in 45 years of being licensed).

Some projects get to fruition quickly, for example my Chinese copy
of a Vibroplex, photos of which appeared in the GQRP SPRAT
magazine within a very few weeks of starting it, whereas others
may go on for years as the goalposts get shifted time and again!

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Gareth , What is the purpose of this eternal repeat , repeat ,repeat.
May I suggest you "clear your internal memory"

It is very necessary to address the eternal CBisation, CBisation, CBisation
lest the powers-that-be see only the CB side of things and restrict
our design and construction privileges. AIUI, there are already countries
where only commercial rigs may be used.

The other probelm is that the floodgates have been opened and there
are large numbers of those (perhaps those who say such things as, "this
eternal repeat , repeat ,repeat"?)
who really are CBers-masquerading-as-radio-amateurs and object emotionally
that they had been deceived into thinking that they were somehow _REAL_
radio amateurs.

I suggest that you put me into your killfile if you dislike my attempts to
maintain the technical and gentlemanly traditions of _REAL_ amateur radio.

Alas whilst I'm in full agreement with Garet regarding standards and
decency there are those (and yes they are visible in this thread) who
claim technically superiority and yet show themselves up to be the
buffoons that they are by lowering the standards of behavior they
claim to maintain.

“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a
people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as
paradise.”
Adolf Hitler