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"Bob Bob" wrote in message ... Well done Simon Cheers Bob VK2YQA Simon Smith wrote: I took my foundation license and morse exam to-day, and both were sucessful. All I have to do now is to: choose a transceiver - choose a tuner - choose an antenna - find someone to errect it - get a log book - and I'm sure there are lot's of other things ..... Anyway .... now I've shared my excitement with you all - I feel much better. John in Cornwall UK Welcome to the club. I am on 20 meters (Spiderweb Net, 14.347 MHz) as I type. So much for usenet displacing actual ham radio operation. 73, H. |
H. Adam Stevens, NQ5H wrote:
"Jim - NN7K" wrote in message . com... Congrats, and enjoy--- but as a thread of a couple days ago reminded -- ( You have been warned ), just remember , to quote: "WE ARE ALL NUTS" :) Best-- Jim NN7K Simon Smith wrote: I took my foundation license and morse exam to-day, and both were sucessful. All I have to do now is to: choose a transceiver - choose a tuner - choose an antenna - find someone to errect it - get a log book - and I'm sure there are lot's of other things ..... Anyway .... now I've shared my excitement with you all - I feel much better. John in Cornwall UK But this nut, when he was 14, April 1964, took the bus from Waco to Dallas, walked to the Federal Building, took the 13 WPM test and the written. Nailed them both. 1964 So there. 73 H. Oh yeah, welcome to the club. Not to diminish anyone's achievements, but that is the way to do things. Take as many tests as you can, at one time. Keep on taking them until you fail one. Then go back home and study some more. As long as we are beating our chests, several years ago I walked in to the testing station and took the Technician test, General test, and 13 WPM test in one sitting. Aced them all. Then, 6 months later, I did the Advanced test, Extra test, and the 20 WPM in one sitting. Again, acing them all. But congratulations to John in Cornwall UK. We will be waiting to hear you on the bands. Not only are we NUTS, we are MIXED NUTS. -- Martin E. Meserve - K7MEM http://www.k7mem.com |
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 00:12:00 +0000 (UTC), "Simon Smith"
wrote: I took my foundation license and morse exam to-day, and both were sucessful. All I have to do now is to: choose a transceiver - choose a tuner - choose an antenna - find someone to errect it - get a log book - and I'm sure there are lot's of other things ..... Anyway .... now I've shared my excitement with you all - I feel much better. John in Cornwall UK Many congratulations JOhn.. Peter, G3PHO |
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 00:12:00 +0000 (UTC), Simon Smith
wrote: I took my foundation license and morse exam to-day, and both were sucessful. All I have to do now is to: choose a transceiver - choose a tuner - choose an antenna - find someone to errect it - get a log book - and I'm sure there are lot's of other things ..... Anyway .... now I've shared my excitement with you all - I feel much better. John in Cornwall UK Congratulations, John! You will find this hobby very rewarding in the high quality of people you meet, an educational process, and a satisfying list of different avenues in which to pursue the hobby. Enjoy! ....Edwin, KD5ZLB -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Edwin Johnson ....... ~ ~ http://www.shreve.net/~elj ~ ~ ~ ~ "Once you have flown, you will walk the ~ ~ earth with your eyes turned skyward, ~ ~ for there you have been, there you long ~ ~ to return." -- da Vinci ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
No. What you need to do now is to pass the Intermediate
and the Advanced courses to become a Radio Ham. At the moment you are something worse than a CBer. (The CBer doesn't have to take any exams and is considered to be competent. He doesn't have to prove anything) Children below the age of 10 years can do what you boast of. "Simon Smith" wrote in message ... I took my foundation license and morse exam to-day, and both were sucessful. All I have to do now is to: choose a transceiver - choose a tuner - choose an antenna - find someone to errect it - get a log book - and I'm sure there are lot's of other things ..... Anyway .... now I've shared my excitement with you all - I feel much better. |
AKA The M3/CB Fools' Licence which is
a gangrenous degeneration of Ham Radio that has admitted the Mongolian Hordes of CBers onto 40m. "Dave Bushong" wrote in message ... Foundation license? Which is that???? |
Rare for you not to behave like a 5-year old.
"Peter" wrote in message ... Many congratulations JOhn.. |
Mr Bean
With the greatest respect. I have no control over the RSGB and their decision to allow "new members" with an easy foundation test. Perhaps it was because the hobby was in need of some new Blood. I was not allowed to sit the advanced test - or the intermediate test. I had to start off in exactly the same place as you did - at the very bottom. I suppose you started off at the very top did you ? You must be absolutely brilliant !! By the way I;m a retired research technologist with a Mathematics and Chemistry degree - hardly a Mongolian mooron ! Why dont you write to the RSGB - perhaps they could make use of your services in an advisory capacity. "73's Mr Bean. "Airy R. Bean" wrote in message ... AKA The M3/CB Fools' Licence which is a gangrenous degeneration of Ham Radio that has admitted the Mongolian Hordes of CBers onto 40m. "Dave Bushong" wrote in message ... Foundation license? Which is that???? |
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You might have to take the exam.
You don't have to take out the licence. If you're as well educated as you claim, then you could slip through all the exams with ease. The M3/CB Fools' Licence is a gangrenous degeneration of the technical pursuit (not a hobby) that is Ham Radio. It is not and never was in need of "New Blood". If that "New Blood " does not make its own gear then that "new blood" is of the CB type and not the Ham Radio type. Everybody had to start off with the RAE. That it was passed with facility by otherwise-unqualified self-taught 14-year-olds meant that there was never a need to lower the standards to introduce the Novice (Now Intermediate) exam. That the Novice was introduced means that there was _DEFINITELY_ no need to introduce the Fools' Licence whereby someone starting out with no interest at all could have a "licence" after only a two-day weekend course. 8-year-old children who do not even have the mathematical background to work out resistances in series and parallel, the most fundamental technical skill of any Radio Ham, are getting Fools' Licences, thereby showing that one thing the Fools' Licence is not, and that is a Ham Radio Licence. I refuse to QSO with M3/CB Fools' Licensees precisely because the licence is the thin end of the wedge leading to non-technical Hams who are forbidden to build their own gear. I exhort everybody who reads this post to refuse to QSO with such licensees, not because of any personal issues, but purely because of the threat that the M3/CB Fools' Licence presents to Ham Radio if it is allowed to continue. "Simon Smith" wrote in message ... Mr Bean With the greatest respect. I have no control over the RSGB and their decision to allow "new members" with an easy foundation test. Perhaps it was because the hobby was in need of some new Blood. I was not allowed to sit the advanced test - or the intermediate test. I had to start off in exactly the same place as you did - at the very bottom. I suppose you started off at the very top did you ? You must be absolutely brilliant !! By the way I;m a retired research technologist with a Mathematics and Chemistry degree - hardly a Mongolian mooron ! Why dont you write to the RSGB - perhaps they could make use of your services in an advisory capacity. |
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