It's us REAL HAMS...us CW operators
that should be slinging the mud.

When you real hams, sitting on your fat asses come out of your musty shacks
and use your superior skills to help out your neighbors during local
emergencies I'll have some respect for you.
Join an ARES or RACES group.. or even a Skywarn net.
Until then you are just a waste of bandwidth and good potato chips.

Steve Stone wrote:
It's us REAL HAMS...us CW operators
that should be slinging the mud.

When you real hams, sitting on your fat asses come out of your musty shacks
and use your superior skills to help out your neighbors during local
emergencies I'll have some respect for you.
Join an ARES or RACES group.. or even a Skywarn net.
Until then you are just a waste of bandwidth and good potato chips.





I am in both RACES and SKYWARN and just about puke every time some CB
reject say's "What's your 20?." I am forced to respond, "My location is
____, you jackass."

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:42:55 -0500, Old Time Ham wrote:
Steve Stone wrote:
It's us REAL HAMS...us CW operators
that should be slinging the mud.

When you real hams, sitting on your fat asses come out of your musty shacks
and use your superior skills to help out your neighbors during local
emergencies I'll have some respect for you.
Join an ARES or RACES group.. or even a Skywarn net.
Until then you are just a waste of bandwidth and good potato chips.





I am in both RACES and SKYWARN and just about puke every time some CB
reject say's "What's your 20?." I am forced to respond, "My location is
____, you jackass."

10 signals are obsolete and are being officially dropped by most police
departments in favor of plain English. The announcement has been all
over CNN and FNN. Apparently, police professional organizations and
Homeland Security have recommended that 10 codes be dropped, and most
police departments are about to comply.

The use of 10 codes will now be the offical mark of a backward operator,
just as we have always known.

"Steve Stone" wrote in
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It's us REAL HAMS...us CW operators
that should be slinging the mud.

When you real hams, sitting on your fat asses come out of your musty
shacks and use your superior skills to help out your neighbors during
local emergencies I'll have some respect for you.
Join an ARES or RACES group.. or even a Skywarn net.
Until then you are just a waste of bandwidth and good potato chips.


Fine, then you losers don't come asking us to help you fix your radio's
after you break them. We got more important ham things we can be doing
than fixing a no-code hams broken radio.

SC

Why am I wasteing my time brushing up on radio & electronic theory and
studying schematics when, apparantly, all I need is better cw skills to
enable me to fix my radios.

"JOHN D" wrote in
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Why am I wasteing my time brushing up on radio & electronic theory and
studying schematics when, apparantly, all I need is better cw skills to
enable me to fix my radios.


You need both to be a well balance operator. If you're willing and
motivated enough to be able to learn and communicate with CW, you're also
more likely to be motivated to advance yourself technically in other areas
of radio as well. You won't be one of those unmotivated no-code appliance
operators you hear on repeaters who spend their days kerchunking all the
machines in the area.

SC

"Slow Code" wrote in message
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"JOHN D" wrote in
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Why am I wasteing my time brushing up on radio & electronic theory and
studying schematics when, apparantly, all I need is better cw skills to
enable me to fix my radios.


You need both to be a well balance operator. If you're willing and
motivated enough to be able to learn and communicate with CW, you're also
more likely to be motivated to advance yourself technically in other areas
of radio as well. You won't be one of those unmotivated no-code appliance
operators you hear on repeaters who spend their days kerchunking all the
machines in the area.

SC

I guess my 2m in the car qualifies as an appliance radio. My HF radios are
mostly all old tube type. Real radios have a warm glow. I came upon a
bargain that I couldn't pass up on a Yaesu FT-901. I'm still trying to
decide if it's too new for me. I still practice with code tapes but I ain't
getting much better but, I'm proud of my 5 wpm extra class licence.
John

"JOHN D" wrote in
news:KmTah.10681$d42.1104@trndny07:


"Slow Code" wrote in message
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"JOHN D" wrote in
news:evJ9h.6046$IW2.4244@trndny03:


Why am I wasteing my time brushing up on radio & electronic theory
and studying schematics when, apparantly, all I need is better cw
skills to enable me to fix my radios.


You need both to be a well balance operator. If you're willing and
motivated enough to be able to learn and communicate with CW, you're
also more likely to be motivated to advance yourself technically in
other areas of radio as well. You won't be one of those unmotivated
no-code appliance operators you hear on repeaters who spend their days
kerchunking all the machines in the area.

SC

I guess my 2m in the car qualifies as an appliance radio. My HF radios
are
mostly all old tube type. Real radios have a warm glow. I came upon a
bargain that I couldn't pass up on a Yaesu FT-901. I'm still trying to
decide if it's too new for me. I still practice with code tapes but I
ain't getting much better but, I'm proud of my 5 wpm extra class
licence. John


It says Extra class on your paper, but it's not a Real Extra class
license. They quit issuing those after restructuring. What you
got is a Welfare hand-out Extra.

SC