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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:46:29 -0400, "L." wrote:

"John S." wrote in message
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The point I was trying to make is that the amateur radio hobby matured
about 3 decades ago. It's membership is aging rapidly and the number
of active participants is declining. As the baby boomer generation
dies off at an increasing rate the amateur radio hobby will continue to
fade away. Fiddling with the test requirements isn't going to magically
entice younger blood away from the many other license-free ways of
communicating. I would venture to say that you could open the ham
bands completely CB style and not get a big jump in membership. There
are just too many other interesting, easy to use ways of communicating
that that younger people are accustomed to using. I wish it were
otherwise.

Making the ham radio test more of a challenge as you suggest misses the
point completely. The point is that there will be a diminishing number
of people with any interest becoming a ham, no matter what the
requirements are.


You "could" be and may very well be right in that regard as to the numbers
increasing or not if the bands were completely opened. But since most of
this crap evolved around CODE and then the "learning" ability of "exam"
material - those issues are not the complete problem. As I said, if you
want to "learn" anything, effort is the key
..more from the s&M shcool of lincense
http://www.marksspamblog.blogspot.com/

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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 13:49:37 -0500, "Not Lloyd" anon@anon wrote:


entirely feeble can't even find a picture of your target wismen
http://www.marksspamblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.marksspamblog.blogspot.com/


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Great. An antagonistic dyslexic in a sea of ambiguous text.

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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:07:05 -0500, "Not Lloyd" anon@anon wrote:

IF YOU WANT IT BAD ENOUGH - YOU"LL DO IT. Of
Weinie Boy is, by nature, lazy. He is NOT the bread winner in his family
and, indeed, sits home all day giving excuses as to why he cannot obtain
gainful employment.
no excuses I have gainfull employmennet and maek $5.45 a howr at the door
And forget trying to shame this obtuse leech into procuring and utilizing a
spell check program. He knows better...he's simply too lazy, preferring
instead to sit on his rotund arse while he flames Usenet with his drivel.
There are three things you can't give Mark.
1. A job.
you can't give me what I have i am a door greeter at wal-mart
2. A fat lip.
you got that right it is already fat
3. Ambition.
you got that right you can't give what I already ahve. i even go to the
refrigeaerator all by mself

http://www.marksspamblog.blogspot.com/

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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:19:17 -0500, "Not Lloyd" anon@anon wrote:



you got that right you can't give what I already ahve.
i even go to the
refrigeaerator all by mself
good for your wismen
http://kb9rqz.blogspot.com/

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Mark caught forging using Steve's name.
"Steve's" post has headers:

X-Complaints-To:
X-Submitted-By: 66.82.9.42

Your reply contains headers:

NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.82.9.42
Injection-Info: 38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.82.9.42

'Nuff said.

Brenda Ann wrote:
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Want to see interest in radio pique?? Open up a band specifically for
unlicensed broadcasting. Not CB, not ham, but actual broadcasting. I can see
tens of thousands rushing to get in on that one..
or even low requirments forlicense would draw quite well I expect

they don't want to comicate even then if the other party does n't want
to xactly agree with them all you have ot do is read RRAP to see that


Uh, wanna try that again? This time use English.

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"Slow Code" wrote in message
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"Slow Code" wrote in message
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"Slow Code" wrote in message
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Let's keep the (BITCHSLAPPED)

Like I said, we don't want to be hams or we would already have tickets
you slow witted troll.



Breaker, Breaker, Breaker, anyone got their ears on, kick it on back to
Mr Death, the big dog around town.


Again your lack of knowledge makes you look the fool. Quit watching your
copy of Convoy.

"Brenda Ann" wrote in
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Say no to institutionalized interference.
Just say NO to HD/IBOC!
"John S." wrote in message
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The point I was trying to make is that the amateur radio hobby matured
about 3 decades ago. It's membership is aging rapidly and the number
of active participants is declining. As the baby boomer generation
dies off at an increasing rate the amateur radio hobby will continue to
fade away. Fiddling with the test requirements isn't going to magically
entice younger blood away from the many other license-free ways of
communicating. I would venture to say that you could open the ham
bands completely CB style and not get a big jump in membership. There
are just too many other interesting, easy to use ways of communicating
that that younger people are accustomed to using. I wish it were
otherwise.

Making the ham radio test more of a challenge as you suggest misses the
point completely. The point is that there will be a diminishing number
of people with any interest becoming a ham, no matter what the
requirements are.

Want to see interest in radio pique?? Open up a band specifically for
unlicensed broadcasting. Not CB, not ham, but actual broadcasting. I can
see tens of thousands rushing to get in on that one..



That because they're all appliance operators, they don't want to put forth
an effort to learn and it will end up sounding like CB.


SC

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How does it feel to be owned, bitch?
I would not know
meltdown in progress

ROTFLMAO!!!! Now there's a parade I'll march in!
Amen, bro.
rb

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I have a better idea.

Lets require all Ham radio operators take an I.Q. test. Only upon
passing the test would an operator be allowed Amateur privileges.
A score of 130 would be required. This would eliminate 98% of
hams and also eliminate overcrowding of the band.

The 98% of Amateurs who flunk would automatically be termed CBers.
This shouldn't be a problem because 98% of Amateurs are nothing but
self glorified CBers anyway. They just would never admit it.

Problem solved.