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October 26th 06, 07:00 PM
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Is the code requirement really keeping good people out of ham radio?
From: "Dee Flint" on Wed, Oct 25 2006 8:25pm
"Cecil Moore" wrote in message wrote: From: "Dee Flint" on Sun, Oct 22 2006 8:47am Yes ham radio is supposed to be camaraderie. People are supposed to help each other. Then why don't they? Because a lot of pro-coders would rather belittle no-coders than help them? More likely a knee jerk reaction to the very few but very vocal ones who try to come in and act like they know all there is to know about radio when the "ink isn't even dry on their license". Dee, the "ink on my license" has been "dry" for 50 years. The mimeograph "ink" on my Army assignment has been "dry" for 53 years. The "ink" on my first aerospace hiring has also been "dry" for 50 years. In a half century of being radio-active, I've continually been learning, working, experimenting, trying, doing. I DO know a fair amount of things about radio and electronics but there is always something new coming up all the time. OH! You mean AMATEUR RADIO "license?" Of course. Amateur radio is so very DIFFERENT than all other kinds of radio... Riiiight...those coming into ham radio from any other kind of radio service(s) are "newbies" and "ignorant"...? Heil thinks so. Do you think so? It's unfortunate that the experienced hams don't have the discipline to withstand this nonsense without such knee-jerk reactions. Nice "knees" you have, Dee... :-) When a new licensee (the level of license is irrelevant) tells me that you can't work DX without an amplifier, I just tell him about the countries I worked with my 100 watt radio and relatively low mount G5RV. Gosh, I "worked countries" with nothing less than 1 KW output on HF and a delta-match dipole. Short-range, about 300 miles. Of course, for 24/7 ops on HF crossing the Pacific there was 40 KW PEP into a rhombic... :-) But some hams turn bitter instead when a newbie insists that he is right and they are wrong. Sugar. Try some sweetener... |
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