On 10/01/2016 23:13, Fred Roberts wrote:
On 10/01/2016 22:19, Brian Reay wrote:

Especially if, having qualified, and supposedly spent years building
kit etc., you don't know the basics.

I know what you mean. 40 years on and some planks can't even get the
basics of CW.

I wonder why manufacturers don't make rigs without CW, that would be far
less embarrassing for the code-less. Oh! Wait! They do.....they are
known as handie-talkies, and the no-coders obsess about programming
them(must lock it to the 2m band!), software, programming cables, and
which CTCSS each repeater uses.

Did you see that one new Full complained that activity on his local
repeaters has fallen off since he was licensed? Utterly coincidental, of
course. He sounded like the sort of person who gets stuck in a traffic
jam with no-one returning his calls.


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