Alun Palmer wrote:
(Larry Roll K3LT) wrote:

My point exactly. This is one of the reasons why the requirements to be
licensed in the AMATEUR radio service do not require professional-level
RF engineering skills. Nevertheless, Carl seems to hold on to the notion
that his being an RF engineer somehow grants him exalted status as an
AMATEUR radio operator. Why is that?

....

Could it be because he knows a lot about radio?

Makes no difference to Larry. His measure of an Amateur is
simply how near to being identical to Larry Roll are they. If
it is not important to Larry, it isn't important to the ARS. If
it is important to Larry, then any ham that doesn't measure up,
somehow isn't a real ham.

It never occurred to him that many many hams are also
professionals, and if we measured him by the same standard, he'd
get laughed out of the club meeting. But in fact very few hams
who are pro's in the business think that hams are measured the
way Larry does. We do realize that it wouldn't be fair, and
that the ARS is afterall, a hobby and should remain that way.

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